AWARENESS OF PARENTS ABOUT THE MENTAL HEALTH OF THE ADOLESCENT STUDENTS: A DESCRIPTIVE SURVEY

Abstract

Parents of adolescent students have a significant role to play to keep their wards physically and mentally healthy. The parents should have a clear idea of what is called mental health. So, the researcher here wanted to find out if there was any significant difference on the level of awareness of the parents about the mental health of the adolescent learners based on their gender, habitat area, work condition, wards’ educational affiliating boards and types of works of the parents. Total 120 parents from the schools of Howrah and Kolkata districts were taken by simple random sampling. A self-made standardized questionnaire on five-point likert scale was given to the parents of the adolescent students to measure their level of awareness of mental health of their wards and quantitative method was used by applying Mean, SD and t test. The result revealed that there were no significant differences in the presence of mental health among the adolescent parents based on gender and working conditions of the parents. Rather significant differences were observed in the areas of habitat area, work culture and educational affiliating boards.