Questionnaire analysis of mental health test in 2 994 freshmen of normal university
- VernacularTitle:师范院校新生心理健康测试2 994份问卷分析
- Author:
Keshan LIU
;
Xianhua LIU
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:
Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research
2006;10(34):166-168
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
BACKGROUND: College students of normal universities, the major supply of teachers, have influences on their latter career of teacher man.OBJECTIVE: To investigate the mental health of freshmen of local normal university in 2005, so as to provide the basis for mental health education and mental counselling.DESIGN: Cluster sampling and cross-sectional investigation.SETTING: Department of Education Science, Hengyang Normal University.PARTICIPANTS: This experiment was carried out in Hengyang Normal University in October 2005. Totally 3 089 freshmen of Hengyang Normal University in 2005 were selected as the participants, including 1 211 male and 1878 female with the mean age of 18.72 years.METHODS: The freshmen were tested by Symptom Check List- 90 (SCL-90)in groups after their enrolment a month later. Before answering the questions, they were given uniform directions and answered every question individually according to their own conditions in the latest week. All the answer papers were handed in on the spot. The data of SCL-90 were inputwith Optical Mark Reader 2000 (OMR2000) into Psychometrics Toolbox STD V3.0 of Psychology Exploring System for calculation of total score and the score of each factor. The unanswered items in SCL-90 were labelled as "never", if more than 5 items were unanswered, the questionnaire was considered to be invalid and therefore rejected for analysis. The total score below 95 points in a questionnaire was considered to suggest low reliability of answers and the questionnaire was also rejected. All the data was input into computer and statistically analysed with SPSS 11.0 software. Differences among groups were compared by using t test.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The scores of SCL-90.RESULTS: Totally 3 089 questionnaires were distributed and 2 994 of them were collected, with the effective rate of 96.92%, including 1 180male, 1 814 female, 2 847 freshmen of liberal arts and 1 147 freshmen of science. All the nine SCL-90 factor scores of the tested freshmen were significantly higher than those of Chinese youth's norm (P＜0.01). The female freshmen had significantly higher scores than the male freshmen in the factors of somatization, obsessive-compulsive, interpersonal sensitivity,depression, anxiety and phobia anxiety(P＜0.05-0.01 ), and contra in the factor of hostility(P＜0.01). There was no significant sex difference in the factor of paranoid ideation and psychoticism. The freshmen of liberal arts had significantly lower scores than the freshmen of science in the factors of obsessive-compulsive, hostility and psychoticism(P＜0.05-0.01 ), and contra in the factor of phobia anxiety(P＜0.05), there was no significant difference in the other factors between the two groups.CONCLUSION: The mental health level of freshmen of local normal university is lower than the average level of Chinese youth. The mental health status of the female freshmen is lower than that of the male freshmen. In obsessive-compulsive, hostility and psychoticism items,the freshmen of liberal arts and science are better than the freshmen of science, but in phobic anxiety items, it is contrary.
