Exploring Adolescents’ Wellness in Etelä-Kymenlaakso Vocational College during Fall Semester 2012
Koho, Mari (2013)
Kymenlaakson ammattikorkeakoulu
2013
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201305189390
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201305189390
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ABSTRACT
KYMENLAAKSON AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU
University of Applied Sciences
Master’s Degree Programme in Health Promotion
MARI KOHO Exploring Adolescents’ Wellness in Etelä-Kymenlaakso Vocational College during Fall Semester 2012
Thesis 62 pages
Supervisors Ttm. Johanna Sipari, Health Promotion coordinator, City of Kotka,
Ttm. Olli Lehtonen, University of Eastern Finland
Key words wellness, health, assumption of tobacco, alcohol and drugs, social relationships, nutrition, exercise, and health status
Most of the life habits even good or bad are formed during adolescence years. That is why it is so essential to promote adolescents´ health- and wellbeing status in at an early stage and, on the other hand, prevent bad life habits occurring.
Period of life between 10 and 19 years of age is generally considered to be the time of adolescence. Average age of adolescents taking part of this study was 17.4 years old and standard deviation was 3.06 years.
The aim of this study was to make an analysis of the health-and wellbeing status of the second degree students of Etelä-Kymenlaakson Vocational College, Ekami. The purpose was to reveal possible health problems and give targeted results to health care professionals and school staff working with the students to intervene with problems that comes to the fore from this study.
The data was collected via web-based questionnaire in November 2012. The survey included multiple choice questions. The survey consisted of 4 themes; health status, nutritional and exercise habits, social relationships & mindset and coping, assumption of tobacco, snuff, drugs and alcohol. The themes were chosen because the purpose was to gain a holistic picture of respondents’ wellbeing status. Themes were covered in the questionnaire with 47 multiple choice questions. All in all, 322 students took part of this survey, from which 154 were boys and 174 were girls.
Results revealed that respondents with more positive experience of their own health status also had a more positive view of their general spirit. The major part of respondents answered that their health status is fairly or very good. Over half of respondents stated to have good nutritional habits, i.e. they eat 5 times per day and consume milk- and grain product, vegetables and fruits daily.
Cross-tabulation between school lunch eating habits and problems in concentration at school revealed clear evidence that respondents denying to have lunch at school had more problems in concentration during the school day.
The respondents’ alcohol consumption habits were surprising. Only 22.8% of respondents answered that they did not use alcohol at all. It must be taken account that most of the respondents were minors. According to this study results not only the girls are drinking alcohol more often but also they use 6 or more portions of alcohol more often than boys.
The respondents level of general spirit was very high, only one fifth of students felt low-spirited sometimes or all the time. Cross-tabulation of gender versus perception of own immediate future revealed that there was clear evidence that girls had more negative perception of their immediate future than boys. All in all the study results showed that the girls should be addressed more when planning health promotion projects to this targeted group
KYMENLAAKSON AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU
University of Applied Sciences
Master’s Degree Programme in Health Promotion
MARI KOHO Exploring Adolescents’ Wellness in Etelä-Kymenlaakso Vocational College during Fall Semester 2012
Thesis 62 pages
Supervisors Ttm. Johanna Sipari, Health Promotion coordinator, City of Kotka,
Ttm. Olli Lehtonen, University of Eastern Finland
Key words wellness, health, assumption of tobacco, alcohol and drugs, social relationships, nutrition, exercise, and health status
Most of the life habits even good or bad are formed during adolescence years. That is why it is so essential to promote adolescents´ health- and wellbeing status in at an early stage and, on the other hand, prevent bad life habits occurring.
Period of life between 10 and 19 years of age is generally considered to be the time of adolescence. Average age of adolescents taking part of this study was 17.4 years old and standard deviation was 3.06 years.
The aim of this study was to make an analysis of the health-and wellbeing status of the second degree students of Etelä-Kymenlaakson Vocational College, Ekami. The purpose was to reveal possible health problems and give targeted results to health care professionals and school staff working with the students to intervene with problems that comes to the fore from this study.
The data was collected via web-based questionnaire in November 2012. The survey included multiple choice questions. The survey consisted of 4 themes; health status, nutritional and exercise habits, social relationships & mindset and coping, assumption of tobacco, snuff, drugs and alcohol. The themes were chosen because the purpose was to gain a holistic picture of respondents’ wellbeing status. Themes were covered in the questionnaire with 47 multiple choice questions. All in all, 322 students took part of this survey, from which 154 were boys and 174 were girls.
Results revealed that respondents with more positive experience of their own health status also had a more positive view of their general spirit. The major part of respondents answered that their health status is fairly or very good. Over half of respondents stated to have good nutritional habits, i.e. they eat 5 times per day and consume milk- and grain product, vegetables and fruits daily.
Cross-tabulation between school lunch eating habits and problems in concentration at school revealed clear evidence that respondents denying to have lunch at school had more problems in concentration during the school day.
The respondents’ alcohol consumption habits were surprising. Only 22.8% of respondents answered that they did not use alcohol at all. It must be taken account that most of the respondents were minors. According to this study results not only the girls are drinking alcohol more often but also they use 6 or more portions of alcohol more often than boys.
The respondents level of general spirit was very high, only one fifth of students felt low-spirited sometimes or all the time. Cross-tabulation of gender versus perception of own immediate future revealed that there was clear evidence that girls had more negative perception of their immediate future than boys. All in all the study results showed that the girls should be addressed more when planning health promotion projects to this targeted group