Mental Health Status of Middle School Students in Shilin County

Objective To understand mental health status of students in Shilin Nationality Middle School, and to provide evidence for mental health e-ducation to minority nationality middle school students. Methods Four hundred and forty-seven middle school students were surveyed with a revised Mental Health Test( MHT). Results The incidence of anxiety among 447 students was 1.79% , and learning anxiety was obvious. There was no significant differences on each factors of MHT between the students of Han Nationality and Yi Nationality, but differences were found in sensitive factor between students of grade two in junior middle school and grade one in senior middle school. There were significant differences in learning anxiety factor between male and female. Conclusion Learning anxiety was a serious problem among middle school students. There was no significant difference between students of the two nationalities on factors of learning anxiety, but significant difference were found between grades on sensitive factor and between genders on learning anxiety factor.