| Summary: | 碩士 === 國防醫學院 === 公共衛生學研究所 === 101 === Background: Recent studies have identified mental health problems - in particular depression, as the most heaviest burden of disease among young people (Disability-Adjusted Life Year, DALY). Young people are the important personnel in the country development. Hense their health, especially in mental health, will be an important issue.
Objective: To understand high school students’ mental health and its’ affecting factors. And to explore gender and other factors effect of mental health.
Methods: This research is a secondary data analysis, but also a cross-sectional study. This research used the database of the Nutrition and Health Survey in Taiwan 2010 and 2011. Exclusion criteria were independent and dependent variables were missing. Finally, a total of 751 junior high school students and 922 high school students were included in the analysis. We used SUDAAN 9.0 and IBM SPSS Statistics 21 for statistical analysis. Statistical methods including frequency, percentage and chi-square test. And we used logistic regression to analyze the risk factors of high school students’ mental health.
Results: The prevalence of junior high school students with poor mental health is 42.17%. The prevalence of senior high school students with poor mental health is 49.85%. After multivariate adjustment, junior high school students’ mental health’s affecting factors include gender, grade, consciously unhealthy and eating breakfast. Gender, consciously unhealthy and bodyimage are senior high school students’ mental health’s affecting factors. There are interactions between gender, consciously unhealthy, bodyimage, eating breakfast, and drinking.
Conclusion: Based on the results of this study, we recommend that parents and schools should be strengthened to enhance the mental health of students, especially girls. And parents should more concern about the health status and body weight changes in children, which are likely to affect the position of mental health.
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