THỰC TRẠNG THỰC HIỆN CHĂM SÓC SỨC KHỎE TÂM THẦN DỰA VÀO TRƯỜNG HỌC TẠI THÀNH PHỐ CẦN THƠ NĂM 2023

Abstract

  Background: Mental health problems often start quite early in school age. Therefore, school-based mental health care is becoming more and more important. Objectives: To investigate the current situation of school-based mental health care in Can Tho city in 2023. Study subjects and methods: The cross-sectional descriptive study on 320 school health workers. The data collection period is from 11/2023 to 5/2024 using a prepared set of questions. Results: The percentage of school health workers with medical expertise was 86.6%. The basic awareness related to mental health of school health workers was 41.3% and there were 67.2% of school health workers who think that there was a role to support students about mental health issues. In addition, the percentage of schools with mental health care activities for students was only 28.7%, of which 44.0% had the participation of school health workers. However, the percentage of school health workers trained to understand and support mental health for students was 20.6%. Annually, 40.0% of schools conduct mental health assessments for students in the form of integrating them into health checkups at the beginning of the school year up to 80.5%. Conclusions: The role of school health workers has not been promoted much. Therefore, fostering capacity building for school health workers is a necessary issue. In addition, schools need to build more comprehensive mental health care activities for students.