Mental Health Management and Students’ Academic Success: A Study of Government-Aided Secondary Schools in Mukono District, Uganda
Year: 2025
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: This investigation examined an association amongst management of health mentally and students’ success academically within Mukono district’s Secondary schools supported by the government, Uganda. This investigation had been directed through 3 objectives specifically; i) To examine the relationship between guidance & counseling and students’ academic success, ii) To examine the relationship between self-care strategies and students’ academic success, and iii) To examine the relationship between stress management techniques and students’ academic success in government-aided secondary schools in Mukono district. This investigation exposed strong statistical substantial association amongst guidance & counseling as well as students’ successs academically within Mukono district’s Secondary schools supported by the government. This investigation similarly exposed a moderate statistical substantial association amongst self-care strategies as well as students’ successs academically within Mukono district’s Secondary schools supported by the government. More so, this investigation exposed a strong statistical substantial association amongst stress management techniques as well as students’ successs academically within Mukono district’s Secondary schools supported by the government. Consequently, it was concluded that management of mental health in terms of guidance & counseling, self-care strategies, and stress management techniques has an optimistic as well as substantial association regarding a student’s success academically forinstance, an upsurge within various forms of management of mental health resultantly leads towards enhancement within students’ successs academically within Mukono district’s Secondary schools supported by the government. This investigation endorses, schools should develop structured mental health programs that provide awareness, early detection, and intervention strategies as well as conduct regular mental health screenings to identify students who may need professional support and this significantly led towards enhancement within students’ successs academically within Mukono district’s Secondary schools supported by the government.
Institution: Islamic University in Uganda
Language: English
Topic: Student Stress and Coping
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4413194539