EFFECTIVENESS OF MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS PROGRAM ON THE REDUCTION OF SUICIDAL RISK AMONG STUDENT IN ESAN WEST LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, EDO STATE

HELEN OKE EBOIGBE

EFFECTIVENESS OF MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS PROGRAM ON THE REDUCTION OF SUICIDAL RISK AMONG STUDENT IN ESAN WEST LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, EDO STATE

HELEN OKE EBOIGBE

Abstract

This study, investigated the effectiveness of mental health awareness program on the reduction of suicidal risk among secondary school student in Esan West Local Government Area, Edo State. The study employed a true-experimental research. Specifically, pre-test, post-test control group design. True-experimental design was employed because participant was randomized into experimental and control group. The experimental group and the control group were given pre-test and post-test. The post-test of the experimental group was after the treatment. The population consisted of all two hundred and twenty-five (225) senior secondary school (SS1-3) student in Esan West Local Government Area, Edo State. Multistage sampling technique was adopted and used to select 71 SS1-3 students who were having high suicidal risk. Two hypotheses guided the study. The instrument used for data collection was a self-structured questionnaire by the researcher titled; Suicidal risk among Undergraduate Student Inventory (SRUSI). The content validity of the instrument was ascertained by three experts. Cronbach Alpha statistics was used to obtain a reliability coefficient value of 0.89. The value is high enough to guarantee the use of the instrument for the field work. The instrument was used to collect data for the study and the data collected were analyzed using inferential statistics of paired sample t-test and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed that MHAP is significantly effective in reducing suicidal risk among student in Esan West Local Government Area when compared to the inefficacy of the Control Group and irrespective of sex of the participant, MHAP reduced suicidal risk among them equally. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that, counselling psychologists should, therefore, apply MHAP in reducing suicidal risk among student.

Keywords

Suicide;Mental Health Awareness Program;Effectiveness and Sex

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