Asad Nizami, Faiza Aslam, Fareed A Minhas, Sajjad Raza, Sema Genel, Burcu Tetik.
Mental health education intervention for training teachers in areas affected by earthquake.
J Pak Psych Soc Jan ;4(1):60-2.

The present study aimed to find the level of awareness for mental health in the school teachers in an earthquake affected area. This study was conducted as part of a two days workshop which was conducted for the primary school teachers for `understanding mental health and psychosocial interventions` in the Union Council Salmiah of Azad Jammu & Kashmir in August 2006. There are 4 schools for higher education, 6 for middle education and the rest 32 for primary education. There are a total of 3708 students currently attending the schools and 130 school teachers involved in teaching. An indigenous questionnaire was designed to assess the baseline knowledge about various aspects of mental health. The questionnaire had 20 questions with a range of three possible responses; Yes, No or Don`t Know. A total of 12 teachers participated in the workshop, 2 (16.66%) were females and 10 (83.33%) were males and all of them were teaching at the primary level of education. The mean scores of the females were 12.00 (S.D. + 0.0) before the intervention and in their post test evaluation forms their mean score was 14.00 (S.D. + 2.82). The mean scores of the males were 11.80 (S.D. + 1.36) in the pretest evaluation forms and in the post test evaluation forms it was 12.60 (S.D. + 1.64). Regarding the issues related to the General Awareness about mental illnesses and mental health, 39.85% of participants gave correct responses in both the pretest forms and post test evaluation.

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