Growing awareness is the essential role for mental health plays in development goals on overcoming mental health problems. Knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) surveys are used to define criteria, challenges, and obstacles for enhancing quality and accessibility. The purpose of this study is to analyze the level of knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) of UiTM students towards mental health. There are 364 respondents among UiTM Perlis students from 7 faculties agreed to volunteer answering questionnaire by using Google Form to participate in this study. KAP survey questions adopted from (World Health Organization, 2008) was used. Descriptive analysis such as frequency and percentage were used to identify the highest answer for each section of KAP and Pearson Correlation to correlate between knowledge, attitude, and practice towards mental health. The scoring of the KAP survey by UiTM students for knowledge is 52.1% (fair), attitude is 37.4% (poor) and practice is 34.6% (poor). Bas.....

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This study aimed to gain an understanding of the role of religious faith in dealing with sport-related anxiety among elite athletes. Seventeen elite athletes (10 males, 7 females, age range: 19 to 26 years old) with various sporting backgrounds voluntarily participated in the interviews. There were four religious affiliations involved in this study: Islam, Buddhism, Christianity, and Hinduism. Using a reflexive thematic analysis, two themes are developed: religious coping strategies (i.e., praying, God as the best helper, active submission to God’s will, stressors as God’s benevolence, religious social support, and religious items) and religious psychological effects (i.e., calmness, a sense of relief, self-confidence, motivation, positive thinking, a sense of security, and patience). The findings show that religious faith can play an important role in dealing with sporting anxiety by improving coping abilities and enhancing positive psychological effects among religious athletes...

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This study aims to investigate athletes’ anxiety experience in team and individual sports during training and competitions. A total of 219 youth athletes (Individual, n = 112, Team, n = 107), (Male, n = 110, Female, n = 109) in various types of sports who represented in ‘Sukan Malaysia’ (SUKMA) competition had completed the questionnaires in assessing athletes’ anxiety experience. CSAI-2 scale (score range 1 - 4) were used in the study consists of three components, which are somatic anxiety (α = .74), cognitive anxiety (α = .77), and self-confidence (α = .86). Results revealed that there is a significant correlation (weak to a strong, negative and positive correlation) between all the variables of anxiety (somatic, cognitive and self-confidence). The t-test showed no significant difference among all the variables of anxiety between the team and individual sports. In addition, the result indicated there is no significant difference among the variables of anxiety between gende.....

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Coaches play an important role in developing athletes in terms of skills, techniques and performance. Coaches differ in the way they lead and train the athletes, and yet there is a lack of study in Malaysia which investigates the significance of these coach characteristics on the mental health of athletes. The aim of this study was to examine the influence of coach’s perceived leadership style and behavior on the level of young athletes’ aggression and well-being. This cross-sectional study targeted young athletes aged between 14-35 years old. Apart from demographic information, the following questionnaires were used: Leadership Scale for Sports, Aggression Scale, Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale, and the Patient Health Questionnaire-9. A total of 150 participants responded to the pen-and-paper survey (75 children and 75 adults). Two multiple regression models were fitted. The results showed that aggression was significantly predicted by well-being (β=-0.194, p=0.016) and.....

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Tujuan kajian ini dijalankan adalah untuk mengenal pasti persepsi atlet murid terhadap tingkah laku kepimpinan jurulatih di Sekolah Sukan Malaysia Terengganu. Responden kajian terdiri daripada enam (6) orang atlet murid dari Sekolah Sukan Malaysia Terengganu, Kuala Nerus, Terengganu telah bersetuju untuk ditemu bual. Daripada jumlah enam (6) orang responden, lima (5) orang merupakan atlet murid lelaki dan seorang atlet murid perempuan. Empat (4) jenis sukan terlibat dalam kajian ini iaitu, tiga (3) orang atlet murid daripada sukan olahraga, seorang atlet murid lelaki daripada sukan basikal, seorang lelaki daripada sukan sepak takraw dan seorang atlet murid perempuan daripada sukan angkat berat. Empat (4) tema utama telah diperolehi daripada hasil analisis iaitu tingkah laku maklum balas positif, tingkah laku latihan dan arahan, tingkah laku sokongan sosial dan tingkah laku autokraktik. Dimensi tingkah laku maklum balas positif merupakan faktor utama persepsi atlet murid terhadap kepimp.....

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The management of high blood pressure has included both pharmaceutical and non-pharmacological approaches. Despite the fact that anti-hypertensive medications efficiently lower blood pressure, the expense of health care is growing and is likely to continue to rise in the future. This article review emphasizes the usefulness of exercise modalities as an essential non-pharmacological tool and acceptable preventive measures that can be used to the treatment of hypertension in Malaysia...

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Kajian dijalankan untuk mengenal pasti keberkesanan pembelajaran berasaskan projek (PBP) Site123 terhadap pencapaian penulisan karangan jenis fakta murid tingkatan empat. Objektif kajian pertama adalah mengkaji tahap karangan murid dalam praujian dan pascaujian bagi kumpulan kawalan dan kumpulan rawatan secara keseluruhan. Objektif kajian kedua adalah mengenal pasti tahap karangan murid berdasarkan wacana dan pemerengganan karangan dalam praujian dan pascaujian bagi kumpulan kawalan dan rawatan secara keseluruhan. Objektif kajian ketiga adalah mengkaji perbezaan skor min karangan murid dalam praujian dan pascaujian bagi kumpulan kawalan dan kumpulan rawatan. Kajian dijalankan menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif. Kaedah yang digunakan berbentuk eksperimen kuasi. Seramai 60 orang responden iaitu murid tingkatan empat terlibat dalam kajian ini dari salah sebuah sekolah menengah di daerah Kampar, Perak. Responden kajian ialah kumpulan murid yang telah dikenal pasti dan ditentuka.....

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This study was aimed to discover the deities in Malaysian Tamil folk songs, to analyse the animism in deities cult and to evaluate the impacts of animism among Tamils Labourers. Qualitative approaches with descriptive and explanatory designs were used in this study. A total of 117 Malaysian Tamil folk songs that met the research objectives were analysed. Animism theory and thematic analysis were used to collect information from the folk songs. Data were analysed using narrative and discourse analysis. Narrative analysis describes the content of the folk songs while discourse analysis explains the usage of terms and words used in the folk songs that can be related to the deities and animism. Code manual were used as research instrument. The findings showed that eight types of deities such as Main male deities, Main female deities, Tutelary male deities, Tutelary female deities, Devas, Nature Deities, Festivals and Places were worshipped by the Tamil labourers. Four elements .....

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The purpose of this study was to identify existing drug prevention education programs in schools, evaluate the effectiveness of drug prevention education programs in schools, and build a drug-free school framework. There are two research methods used to obtain data in this study. The first research design used mixed methods involving qualitative and quantitative data collection. The second design is a design and development research method that has three main phases including the needs analysis phase, the design and development phase, and the evaluation phase. The respondents selected in identifying and evaluating this drug prevention education program are a total of 190 school students, 40 drug prevention education teachers, school counselors, and school administrators, while 10 counseling experts and practitioners have been involved in building the drug-free school framework. The data shows that the most activities carried out in schools are drug education in the integrate.....

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Kajian ini bertujuan untuk memahami tingkah laku pengundi pada pilihan raya pemimpin daerah (PILKADA) Sumbawa 2020. Secara spesifik, kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengenal pasti tahap pendedahan media, tahap identifikasi calon dan tahap tingkah laku pengundi. Selain itu, kajian ini juga dilaksanakan bagi melihat pengaruh pendedahan media dan identifikasi calon terhadap tingkah laku mengundi masyarakat Sumbawa pada PILKADA 2020. Pendekatan kuantitatif dengan reka bentuk tinjauan telah digunakan dalam kajian ini. Responden kajian terdiri daripada 400 orang pengundi yang dipilih menggunakan kaedah persampelan rawak berperingkat. Pengumpulan data kajian menggunakan borang soal selidik. Kemudian data dianalisis dengan menggunakan analisis deskriptif dan inferensi. Analisis deskriptif dijalankan bagi mengenal pasti tahap pendedahan media, tahap identifikasi calon dan tahap tingkah laku pengundi. Manakala analisis inferensi regresi dijalankan untuk menguji hipotesis kajian iaitu mener.....

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