A health culture test for third intermediate pupils according to the curriculum they studied (Human and his health) and its level

Abstract

The study aimed to form a health culture test, and revealing the extent to which the third intermediate students acquire. The study used the descriptive method. The study instrument was the health culture test, which was made by the researchers. After verifying the psychometric properties of the test, it comprised in its final form (42) items which distributed over seven areas: (Personal health, healthy nutrition, environmental health, mental and psychological health, safety and first aid, diseases and how to prevent them, and the sexual education). Then it was applied at the end of the second semester of the academic year (2020/ 2021 AD) on a random sample of (377) students from the third intermediate grade in the center of Mosul city. After treating the data statistically, the researchers reached many results, including the healthy culture for the third intermediate grade students which was less than the reported percentage (60%) that was adopted by the researchers. The level of the overall performance on health culture test reached (58.68%), and the field of "Personal health" attained the highest performance level (63.66%), while the field of "diseases and how to prevent them" achieved the lowest performance level with a rate of (52.43%). And a number of recommendations and proposals were made.