Procedures
Depression, Anxiety
EMERGENCIES, DISORDER
From March to December 2022, in two junior middle schools, the project named “Healthy Together” was launched. The adolescent health education program was the joint effort of doctors and teachers who devised a questionnaire evaluation and administered the health education courses. The study adopted a group design, and the steps were as follows. (1) A baseline assessment was conducted. One week before the course, all students in two groups were assessed with assessment tools, including Adolescent Health Literacy Evaluation Scale under Public Health Emergencies (AHLES-PHE), Depression Self-Rating Scale for Children (DSRSC), Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item scale (GAD-7) and Simplified Coping Style Questionnaire (SCSQ). Students with serious problems were surveyed to inform teachers for follow-up and were given psychological counseling or referred to a hospital psychological clinic if necessary. (2) Health education courses were conducted. The course group received the health education course on public health emergencies, which was taught by hospital physicians in school-based curriculum. The control group received general health education, which was taught by teachers as party of their daily teaching activities. Physicians and teachers have an education level of bachelor’s degree or above and have received training from the research group before conducting courses. The student’s classroom participation rate is 100%. (3) A post-course assessment was conducted one week after the end of the course. The two groups of students were re-evaluated using the same questionnaires used at baseline. Quality control included conducting research-related training and course content guidance for physicians and teachers before the study began. Before the questionnaires were administered, students were given guidance about how to complete them to prevent invalid questionnaires. Interference factors were controlled by administering questionnaires during non-examination periods and preventing students from withdrawing from the project due to major changes.