Healthy school assessment of educational institutions under the Primary Educational Service Area Office Pattani, Area 2
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Background: The concept of Healthy School is an important proposition for improving the quality of schools, making students feel happy in physical, mental, social and spiritual aspects, and is an important subject for improving well-being.
Objective: This study aimed to investigate the level of healthy school of the educational institutions under the Primary Educational Service Area Office Pattani, Area 2.
Methods: A descriptive study was designed with the population of 115 school directors that volunteered to help in this study. The questionnaire survey used to level the healthy schools of the Institute for Research on Education System Foundation has 5 aspects, 25 indicators and suggestions that add on to the school activities that help to become a healthy school, which has the reliability value of .93. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and content analysis.
Results: The results showed that the overall level of healthy school of the educational institutions under the Primary Educational Service Area Office Pattani, Area 2 was at the highest level (M = 4.51, SD = 0.34). Consideration of each aspect showed that the community happiness aspect has the highest average value followed by the students happiness aspect, school happiness aspect, environment happiness aspect, and family happiness aspect, respectively (M = 4.56, 4.56, 4.56, 4.45, and 4.44; SD = 0.45, 0.27, 0.40, 0.37, and 0.51). The suggestions for being healthy schools are as follows: supports on educational media, knowledge exchange among schools, parents, and local community, diversity of study sites, encouragement of healthy relationships with students' parents, and good relationship between schools and local community.
Conclusions: The encouragement of healthy schools will be beneficial to students, schools, family, environment, and local community and helps drive changes in education by creating networks to further improve local community strength.
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บทความที่ได้รับการตีพิมพ์เป็นลิขสิทธิ์ของวิทยาลัยพยาบาลบรมราชชนนี จังหวัดนนทบุรี
ข้อความที่ปรากฏในบทความแต่ละเรื่องในวารสารวิชาการเล่มนี้เป็นความคิดเห็นส่วนตัวของผู้เขียนแต่ละท่านไม่เกี่ยวข้องกับวิทยาลัยพยาบาลบรมราชชนนี จังหวัดนนทบุรี และคณาจารย์ท่านอื่น ในวิทยาลัยฯ แต่อย่างใด ความรับผิดชอบองค์ประกอบทั้งหมดของบทความแต่ละเรื่องเป็นของผู้เขียนแต่ละท่าน หากมีความผิดพลาดใด ๆ ผู้เขียนแต่ละท่านจะรับผิดชอบบทความของตนเองแต่ผู้เดียว
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