Health perceptions of the of physical education and sports teacher in promoting health awareness for secondary school pupils: a field study in the western province of Algiers, centre

Abstract EN

The study aims to identify the level of health perceptions of the teacher of physical education and sports and his role in promoting the level of health awareness for secondary school pupils.

For this purpose, we used the descriptive approach on a sample consisting of (50) teachers and (340) pupils randomly chosen from the western province of Algiers, centre.

To collect data, the health perceptions scale and the health awareness scale were used.

After collecting the results and treating them statistically, it was concluded that the level of health perceptions was just moderate while the pupils' level of health awareness was so high.

On this basis, the study recommended the need to pay more attention to perceptions on the part of the teachers and the necessity to hold regular meetings for the teachers to discuss issues of health dimension.