Problems in management of controlling and preventing Iodene deficiency disorders program in elementary schools under the jurisdiction of the office of the national primary education commission, educational region eight
Abstract:
The purposes of this research were to study the problems and to compare the problems in management of controlling and preventing Iodine deficiency disorders program in elementary schools under the jurisdiction of the office of the national primary education commission, educational region eight as perceived by school health teachers upon the school size in region eight. The sample in this study were 400 school health teachers. There were 32 teachers from large elementary schools, 148 from medium elementary school and 220 from small elementary school. The constructed questionnaires were mailed to all school health teachers. Three hundred and fifty-two accounted for 88 percent of questionnaires were returned. The obtained data were then analyzed in terms of percentages, means, and standard deviation. One-way analysis of Variance and the Scheffe's multiple comparison method were employed to determine the statistically significant difference at the .05 level. The findings of the research study indicated that: 1. Problems in management for controlling and preventing Iodine deficiency disorders program in elementary schools were found to be "low" in all seven areas. Problems of personnels and budgets areas were rated "high". 2. There were no differences at .05 level statistically significant among large, medium and small size of schools in the problems of management for controlling and preventing iodine deficiency program in all areas