Integrated Educational and Pediatric Healthcare Approaches Enhancing Adolescent Coping Skills and Emotional Stability During Social Challenges

Abstract

Adolescents are often faced with problems in the social, academic, and emotional realms that can impact their coping skills and emotional state. However, there are also few successful initiatives to create an effective partnership between educational institutions and pediatric health care services, and the need for mental health support is increasing. The present study examined the effect of an integrated educational and pediatric health care intervention for promoting coping and emotional functioning in high school students. A cross sectional quantitative study was conducted using stratified random sampling among 200 Adolescents (12-18 years). Standardized measures of coping, emotional stability, educational support, and health care service utilization were used to gather data. Results of the statistical analysis showed 42% of the participants had high scores in educational support and 48% had moderate to high coping skill scores. The integrated support and coping ability had significant positive correlation with emotional stability (r = 0.62) and psychological well-being (r = 0.71) (p<0.01), and emotional stability had significant positive correlation with psychological well-being (r = 0.58) (p<0.01). The results suggest that comprehensive education and pediatrics support interventions have a significant impact on enhancing coping capabilities and emotional stability of socially at-risk adolescents.