The Role of the Health Counselor in Developing Health Awareness Among Female Secondary School Students in the Tabuk Educational Region: a Field Study

The research aimed to describe the expected role of the health counselor in developing health Awareness among female secondary school students, and to reveal the reality of the health counselor’s performance of her role in developing health Awareness among female secondary school students in the Tabuk educational region. To achieve the two objectives of the research, the researchers relied on the descriptive approach in its survey style, and used the questionnaire as a tool for collecting data distributed over three dimensions: the psychological health dimension, the nutritional awareness dimension, and the infection avoidance dimension. It was applied to a sample of (266) health professionals and school health supervisors.The results of the research showed that the health educator plays her role in developing health education among female secondary school students in the Tabuk educational region at the level of the tool to a large extent, with an arithmetic mean (2.71 out of 3.0), and a standard deviation (0.25 ), and that they perform their roles at the level of each of its three dimensions, which The study tool included it, to a large degree as well, and the health supervisor’s performance in her role in the nutritional awareness dimension ranked first, with an arithmetic mean (2.89) and standard deviation (0.22), and in second place was the reality of the health supervisor’s educational role in the infection avoidance dimension, with an arithmetic mean (2.86). And a standard deviation of (0.25), and finally the reality of the educational role of the health coach in the dimension of mental health came with an arithmetic mean of (2.45) and a standard deviation of (0.42).In light of this, the researchers presented a set of proposals, through which the performance of the health educator’s role in developing health education among female secondary school students in the Tabuk educational region can be improved.
key word:
Health orientation - role - health Awareness.