The School's Healthy Role in Facing Epidemics in Karak Region from the Students' Point of View

Abstract

The school can play a crucial role in promoting the health of its students and teachers as well, and provides the best opportunities to achieve health education and quality for the life of the entire community, and thus it is considered one of the most important institutions that serve to achieve the goals of “Health for All”.The school itself is an integrated community in which many segments of society live or interact; (Children, teachers, administrative staff, workers and parents). And because health education always looks forward to targeting broad groups in order to spread awareness, attitudes and behaviors that are beneficial to health and life, the school provides a suitable place that delivers the message faithfully to a large segment of society if it is better communicated in a scientific manner. In this study, the researcher distributed (120) questionnaires to students in various government schools for the year (2022-2021) in Karak Region, randomly. The five-point Likert scale was relied upon to correct the study tools, by giving each of its paragraphs one score out of its five degrees (strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree, strongly disagree), and they are represented numerically (5, 4, 3, 2, 1) Respectively, the following scale has been adopted for the purposes of analyzing the results: From) 1.00 to 2.33 Low( ،From )2.34 to 3.67 average) ،From )3.68 to 5.00 large(.The scale was calculated by using the following equation: The upper limit of the scale (5) - the lower limit of the scale (1) / The number of required categories (3 =5-1)/3) (1.33) .And then add the answer (1.33) to the end of each category.

Keywords: health services, healthy school environment, health education, Karak region

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/13-19-01

Publication date:June 30^th 2022