101. Improving emotional health and self-esteem of Malaysian adolescents living in orphanages through Life Skills Education program: A multi-centre randomized control trial
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Hayati Kadir Shahar, Hamidin Awang, Suriani Ismail, and Marjan Mohammadzadeh
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Male ,Emotions ,Psychological intervention ,Social Sciences ,Anxiety ,Adolescents ,law.invention ,Families ,0302 clinical medicine ,Randomized controlled trial ,law ,Surveys and Questionnaires ,Medicine and Health Sciences ,Psychology ,Public and Occupational Health ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Children ,media_common ,Multidisciplinary ,Depression ,Self-esteem ,Orphanages ,Mental Health ,Medicine ,Female ,medicine.symptom ,Behavioral and Social Aspects of Health ,Clinical psychology ,Research Article ,Adolescent ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Science ,Self-concept ,Psychological Stress ,Health Promotion ,Life skills ,03 medical and health sciences ,Intervention (counseling) ,Mental Health and Psychiatry ,medicine ,Humans ,Behavior ,Mood Disorders ,Malaysia ,Biology and Life Sciences ,Mental health ,Self Concept ,030227 psychiatry ,Age Groups ,People and Places ,Population Groupings ,Stress, Psychological - Abstract
Generally speaking, institutionalised children and adolescents are at greatly increased risk of serious mental and behavioural problems, up to seven times more than their peers. Life skills- based interventions using peer enforcement have been introduced as effective program to improve adolescents' emotional and behavioral health. Therefore, the current randomized control study aimed to determine, if a life skills-based intervention could improve the emotional health and self-esteem among Malaysian adolescents in orphanages. Overall, 271 male and female adolescents (13-18 years old) from 8 orphanages in Klang valley, Malaysia participated in the study. Comparing the intervention to control group within 3 points of time, the finding of the study showed that immediately after finishing the interventional sessions (post-test), the mean scores of depression (F = 33.80, P0.001). These results provide preliminary approve for LSE to enhance emotional health and self-esteem in orphanages.
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- 2019