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Improving emotional health and self-esteem of Malaysian adolescents living in orphanages through life skills education program: a multi-centre randomized control trial

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’...

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Main Authors: Mohammadzadeh, Marjan, Awang, Hamidin, Ismail, Suriani, Kadir @ Shahar, Hayati
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Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2019
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/80198/1/Improving%20emotional%20health%20and%20self-esteem%20of%20Malaysian%20adolescents%20living%20in%20orphanages%20through%20Life%20Skills%20Education%20program%20A%20multi-centre%20randomized%20control%20trial%20.pdf
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/80198/
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0226333
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spelling my.upm.eprints.801982020-10-02T00:16:14Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/80198/ Improving emotional health and self-esteem of Malaysian adolescents living in orphanages through life skills education program: a multi-centre randomized control trial Mohammadzadeh, Marjan Awang, Hamidin Ismail, Suriani Kadir @ Shahar, Hayati 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, P<0.001, η2 = 0.11), anxiety (F = 6.28, P = 0.01, η2 = 0.02), stress (F = 32.05, P<0.001, η2 = 0.11) and selfesteem (F = 54.68, P<0.001, η2 = 0.17) were significantly decreased compared to the pretest values. However, there was no significant difference between two groups in the depression mean scores (F = 2.33, P = 0.13). Regarding to the interaction between group and test a significant change was seen in the mean score of all 4 variables including depression (F = 31.04, P<0.001, η2 = 0.10), anxiety (F = 14.21, P<0.001, η2 = 0.05), stress (F = 15.67, P<0.001, η2 = 0.06) and self-esteem (F = 13.29, P<0.001, η2 = 0.05). Furthermore, except depression (Δmean = -1.37, P<0.001), no significant difference was seen between study variables’ mean scores between post- and follow-up test (p>0.001). These results provide preliminary approve for LSE to enhance emotional health and self-esteem in orphanages. Public Library of Science 2019 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/80198/1/Improving%20emotional%20health%20and%20self-esteem%20of%20Malaysian%20adolescents%20living%20in%20orphanages%20through%20Life%20Skills%20Education%20program%20A%20multi-centre%20randomized%20control%20trial%20.pdf Mohammadzadeh, Marjan and Awang, Hamidin and Ismail, Suriani and Kadir @ Shahar, Hayati (2019) Improving emotional health and self-esteem of Malaysian adolescents living in orphanages through life skills education program: a multi-centre randomized control trial. PLoS One, 14 (12). art. no. e0226333. pp. 1-8. ISSN 1932-6203 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0226333 10.1371/journal.pone.0226333
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description 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, P<0.001, η2 = 0.11), anxiety (F = 6.28, P = 0.01, η2 = 0.02), stress (F = 32.05, P<0.001, η2 = 0.11) and selfesteem (F = 54.68, P<0.001, η2 = 0.17) were significantly decreased compared to the pretest values. However, there was no significant difference between two groups in the depression mean scores (F = 2.33, P = 0.13). Regarding to the interaction between group and test a significant change was seen in the mean score of all 4 variables including depression (F = 31.04, P<0.001, η2 = 0.10), anxiety (F = 14.21, P<0.001, η2 = 0.05), stress (F = 15.67, P<0.001, η2 = 0.06) and self-esteem (F = 13.29, P<0.001, η2 = 0.05). Furthermore, except depression (Δmean = -1.37, P<0.001), no significant difference was seen between study variables’ mean scores between post- and follow-up test (p>0.001). These results provide preliminary approve for LSE to enhance emotional health and self-esteem in orphanages.
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author Mohammadzadeh, Marjan
Awang, Hamidin
Ismail, Suriani
Kadir @ Shahar, Hayati
spellingShingle Mohammadzadeh, Marjan
Awang, Hamidin
Ismail, Suriani
Kadir @ Shahar, Hayati
Improving emotional health and self-esteem of Malaysian adolescents living in orphanages through life skills education program: a multi-centre randomized control trial
author_facet Mohammadzadeh, Marjan
Awang, Hamidin
Ismail, Suriani
Kadir @ Shahar, Hayati
author_sort Mohammadzadeh, Marjan
title Improving emotional health and self-esteem of Malaysian adolescents living in orphanages through life skills education program: a multi-centre randomized control trial
title_short Improving emotional health and self-esteem of Malaysian adolescents living in orphanages through life skills education program: a multi-centre randomized control trial
title_full Improving emotional health and self-esteem of Malaysian adolescents living in orphanages through life skills education program: a multi-centre randomized control trial
title_fullStr Improving emotional health and self-esteem of Malaysian adolescents living in orphanages through life skills education program: a multi-centre randomized control trial
title_full_unstemmed Improving emotional health and self-esteem of Malaysian adolescents living in orphanages through life skills education program: a multi-centre randomized control trial
title_sort improving emotional health and self-esteem of malaysian adolescents living in orphanages through life skills education program: a multi-centre randomized control trial
publisher Public Library of Science
publishDate 2019
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/80198/1/Improving%20emotional%20health%20and%20self-esteem%20of%20Malaysian%20adolescents%20living%20in%20orphanages%20through%20Life%20Skills%20Education%20program%20A%20multi-centre%20randomized%20control%20trial%20.pdf
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/80198/
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0226333
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