De La Salle Medical and Health Sciences Institute Senior High School students' perception of mental illness

Date of Completion

1-2019

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Science in Nursing

Keywords

mental illness, senior high school students, perception

Abstract

The study utilized a descriptive quantitative method. Simple random sampling was used to choose Grade 11 and 12 students of De La Salle Medical and Health Sciences Institute in academic year 2018-2019 as the respondents. A self-made questionnaire was utilized in data gathering. Mean, frequency distribution, percentage, standard deviation, t-test, ANOVA and Slovin's formula were the statistical techniques used. The study concluded that, 1) Majority of the respondents were female, Grade 11, eldest child, had a nuclear family structure, cultural origin of Tagalog, Catholic and had a family income of P100,000-P249,000; 2) The respondents perceived mental illness to a high extent as indicated by the overall computed mean of 3.30 with a standard deviation of 0.71; 3) Perception of mental illness had a significant difference in terms of grade level. However, there was no significant difference observed in terms of cultural origin, family structure, family income, ordinal position, sex and religion.

First Advisor

Alely S. Reyes

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