1Assistant Professor, Mental Health (Psychiatric) Nursing Specialty, PSG College of Nursing, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
2Associate Professor, Melmaruvathur Adhiparasakthi Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, and College of Nursing, Melmaruvathur, Kancheepuram District, Tamil Nadu
3Principal, Adhiparasakthi College of Nursing, Melmaruvathur, Kancheepuram District, Tamil Nadu
Online published on 30 November, 2016.
Today's children are tomorrow's responsible citizens of the world. The future of our country depends on the mental health of our young ones.
To evaluate the effectiveness of mental health programme on mental health characteristics among adolescents in PSG schools.
PSG schools, Coimbatore, The research design selected for this study is one group pretest – posttest design.
The Investigator selected using stratified random sampling 30 students from school as per the inclusion criteria for the Pilot study. The mental health programme was implemented and post test was done. The gathered pilot study data was analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics
The effectiveness of the mental health programme by comparing the pre and post test mental health characteristics score. The overall mental health dimensions of adolescents mean improvement was 9.03 with a S.D of.85. The calculated‘t’ value was t=13.51. This showed a high statistical significant difference at p<0.001 level. The reliability score obtained was r = 0.9.
The pilot study revealed no ambiguity, and the adolescents were able to cooperate with the time schedule. The findings of the pilot study revealed that the tool was feasible to conduct the main study.
Mental Health Characteristics, Mental Health Programme, Adolescents
