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Considering Caregivers as a Source of Support in the Context

of Emotional Health to the Caregiving Students of Masbate
National Comprehensive High School

By:

ADIGUE MARK MARIEL

BOJOS JESSA

BRODETH KRISTEL MAE R.

DAO SHERIELYN L.

Grade 12- Honesty (GAS)

In partial fulfillment of the subject

Inquiries, Investigation and Immersion (3I’s)

Senior High School

SY: 2020-2021

MARIA DIVINA LOGRONIO ATACADOR

Inquiries, Investigation and Immersion Adviser
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Acknowledgement

The researchers would like to express their sincere thanks, appreciation and deepest

gratitude to the people who are in one way or the other contributed greatly effort and support for

the fulfilment of our research project in Masbate National Comprehensive High School.

Above all to the Almighty God, for giving us wisdom, strength and courage to surpass all

the challenges in our lives. Also for constantly giving us spiritual enlightenment. For all the graces,

our prayers of thanks.

We would also take this opportunity to acknowledge our research adviser, Mrs. Divina L.

Atacador, for her assistance, suggestions, patience and contribution in making this study possible.

The inspiring message, encouragement, and unending love and support, our sincere thanks. We

will not know the proper way of conducting a research and accomplish this kind of study without

you by our side.

The researchers would also like to thank all those who responded to the questionnaires that

were distributed. To caregiving students in MNCHS, who made our research possible, thank you.

Lastly, our special appreciation goes to our family and friends for their unconditional love

and support, moral encouragement and patience during the entire study period. Their guidance and

supervision were very helpful for us in bringing this work to conclusion. May the Almighty God

bless you all.

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ABSTRACT

The study was conducted to know the idea of considering caregivers as a source of support

in the context of emotional health to the caregiving students of Masbate National Comprehensive

High School

Caregivers are known to be significant in someone`s existence when they are no longer

capable of doing things by their selves. Caregivers never had a part in a student`s life who`s

suffering from emotional problems. That`s why researchers are looking the chance of the them

being part of the student`s emotional life.

The proponents were the caregiving students who suffering from anxiety and depression. In

this research you`ll expect to see the chances of the caregivers to provide emotional support to the

students and in what way they can help them.

The proponents answer were gathered through questionnaire containing open ended

question that will given for the respondents.

The findings shows that most caregiving student has suffering from the problem of

emotional health.

It can be inferred that the caregivers can take care the person who suffering from emotional

health problem not just in adult or the baby.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgement …………………………………………………………
Abstract …………………………………………………………
Chapter I: Introduction …………………………………………………………
Background of the Study …………………………………………………………
Conceptual Framework …………………………………………………………
Statement of the Problem …………………………………………………………
Definition of Terms …………………………………………………………
Significance of the Study …………………………………………………………
Scope and Delimitations …………………………………………………………
Chapter II: Review of Related Literature …………………………………………………
Related Studies …………………………………………………………
Bibliography …………………………………………………………
Chapter III: Methodology …………………………………………………………
Research Design …………………………………………………………
Source of Data …………………………………………………………
Research Instrument …………………………………………………………
Sampling Plan …………………………………………………………
Chapter IV: Data analysis and Interpretation ………………………………………………
Chapter V: Conclusions and Recommendations ………………………………………………
Summary …………………………………………………………
Findings …………………………………………………………
Conclusion …………………………………………………………
Recommendations …………………………………………………………
Webliography …………………………………………………………
Appendix A …………………………………………………………
Appendix B …………………………………………………………
Appendix C …………………………………………………………
Curriculum Vitae …………………………………………………………
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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION

Background of the Study

The point of this research is to identify if there is a possibility for the students to consider

the caregivers as a source of emotional support. We all know that caregivers are known in

providing direct physical care to the children’s, elderly people or chronically ill persons. They

never had a role in a teenager`s life unless they have disability. However, we all know that there

many students who suffers from anxiety and depression. The researchers would like to know if

how significant it is for the caregiving students to maintain their emotional health. Researchers

would also like to know if there is a chance that they seek help from the caregivers to face the

emotional struggles they`ve been going through and in what possible way a caregiver can help

them.

Depression and anxiety disorders are different, but people with depression often experience

symptoms similar to those of an anxiety disorder, such as nervousness, irritability, and problems

sleeping and concentrating. But each disorder has its own causes and its own emotional and

behavioral symptoms. In fact 1 out of 5 students have a diagnosable emotional disorder and 1 out

of 10 young people have mental health challenge that is severe enough to impair how they function

at home, school and in the community. And it believed to continuously increase due to the

pandemic.

Considering the situation that there are some students who have no one to talk to and

continuously suffering from emotional problems but doesn’t want yet to seek help from a

psychiatrist. That what makes the researchers more curious about the possibility of considering the
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caregivers as a source of their emotional support if they are not ready or not capable enough to hire

a psychiatrist.

Conceptual Framework

Control Variables Considering Caregivers as a

source of support

Context of Emotional
Dependent Variables Health to the Caregiving
student

Factors that affect the

Independent Variable Context of emotional
Health

Depression Anxiety

Figure 1. Paradigm of the Conceptual Framework

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Above shows in Figure 1 that the context of emotional health to the caregiving students will

be influenced by the factors that affect the context of emotional health.

Statement of the Problem

The main objective of this study is to notify the Grade 12 Caregiving Students of Masbate

National Comprehensive High School that there is a possible way for them to be supported in

terms of emotional aspects specifically in the context of anxiety and depression.

The researchers will be guided by the following questions:

1. Does the student currently facing emotional problems?

1.1. What emotional problem it might be?

1.2. Does the student receive or seek any emotional support to address his/her problem?

1.3. Where do they receive it? Where do they seek it?

2. How significant it is for a caregiving student to maintain a good emotional health?

3. Is there a chance for a caregiving student to consider the caregivers to be a source of his/her

emotional support?

4. In what way can a caregiver help them to cope up with their emotional problems?
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Definition of Terms

Anxiety disorder- are mental health conditions that involve excessive amounts of anxiety, fear,

nervousness, worry, or dread. Anxiety that is too constant or too intense can cause a person to feel

preoccupied, distracted, tense, and always on alert. Anxiety disorders are among the most common

mental health conditions.

Behavioral symptom- are persistent or repetitive behaviors that are unusual, disruptive,

inappropriate, or cause problems. Aggression, criminal behavior, defiance, drug use, hostility,

inappropriate sexual behavior, inattention, secrecy, and self-harm are examples of behavioral

symptoms.

Caregivers- gives care to someone who needs help taking care of themselves. The person who

needs help may be a child, an adult, or an older adult. They may need help because of an injury or

disability. Or they may have a chronic illness such as Alzheimer's disease or cancer. Some

caregivers are informal caregivers.

Chronic illness- is a long-term health condition that may not have a cure. Examples of chronic

illnesses are: Alzheimer disease and dementia. Arthritis. Asthma.

Depression- is a mood disorder that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest. Also

called major depressive disorder or clinical depression, it affects how you feel, think and behave
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and can lead to a variety of emotional and physical problems. You may have trouble doing normal

day-to-day activities, and sometimes you may feel as if life isn't worth living.

Emotional Health- is one aspect of mental health. It is your ability to cope with both positive and

negative emotions, which includes your awareness of them. Emotionally healthy people have good

coping mechanisms for negative emotions, and they also know when to reach out to a professional

for help.

Psychiatrist- is a medical doctor (an M.D. or D.O.) who specializes in mental health, including

substance use disorders. Psychiatrists are qualified to assess both the mental and physical aspects

of psychological problems.

Significance of the Study

This study will merit the following:

Students - this study will be beneficial to the students who want to cope up from anxiety and

depression. It will serve as a guide in preparing themselves for the possible outcomes of their

emotional health and it will help to upgrade motivation not only to solve problems but also to

stimulate one’s individual to discover the underlying beauty of caregivers support.

Caregivers - the result of this study can identify if there is a possibility in widening their role and

can possibly open many opportunities for them and also they will be able to help many students

who suffer from emotional health.

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Teachers – this will benefit the teachers because the result of this study can help them to deal with

the students who are experiencing anxiety and depression.

Parents – the result of this study is to help them identify if their children are suffering from

anxiety and depression. This can also be a choice for them if they were not able to provide the

support that the children needed to have a good emotional health.

Future Researchers - this body of knowledge will be helpful to the future researchers as it will

provide new directions for further studies that can be explored related to this topic. The result of

this research can be their reference in the future in case they want to widen the scope of this

research or if they are going to conduct a research with the same idea.

Scope and Delimitation of the Study

The main purpose of this study is to provide opportunities for the students to help them

cope up with emotional problems in the context of anxiety and depression. This study will consider

student`s name (optional), age, gender and strand.

This study will only have 20 respondents from Grade 12 Caregiving Students disregarding

their gender and age. The respondent must be a student of Masbate National Comprehensive

Highschool in the school year 2020-2021. Each respondent will answer one questionnaire that will

be given to them through online or personally following the health protocols. The researchers

choose caregiving student for they can also be a caregiver in the future.
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CHAPTER II
REVIEW OF RELATED STUDIES

According to Thomas et al. (2015) to detect and describe caregivers' current need of

support, the concept of “unmet needs” was endorsed from patient-oriented psychological research.

Following this concept, unmet needs are defined as the “requirement for some desirable, necessary,

or useful action to be taken or some resource to be provided, to attain optimal well-being.” There is

growing interest in assessing caregivers' needs by specific caregiver-tailored instruments targeting

different domains of frequently unmet needs (e.g, emotional and psychological, comprehensive

cancer care, and information. Female caregivers, non-spouses, and caregivers reporting distress,

anxiety, and/or depression are considered to be at a higher risk of unmet support needs. However,

to the best of our knowledge there is no comprehensive study including a broad range of possible

medical, social, and psychological predictors to identify the group of caregivers at highest risk.

In fact, Soothill et al. (2015) demonstrated that cancer caregivers can have considerably

more unmet needs than the patients they care for. Furthermore, it appears that there is a significant

percentage of cancer caregivers experiencing a multitude of unmet needs. Female caregivers, non-

spouses, and caregivers reporting distress, anxiety, and/or depression are considered to be at a

higher risk of unmet support needs. However, to the best of our knowledge there is no

comprehensive study including a broad range of possible medical, social, and psychological

predictors to identify the group of caregivers at highest risk.

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Ai Wei (2020) concluded that mental health such as stress, anxiety and depression have

been on the rise in recent time among different groups of people in the emerging challenging

society and especially among university students. University is a place where most adolescents

would experience a change phase in life, discovering their identity as well as experiencing several

challenges. All these pressures might cause students to suffer from anxiety or stress or in some

cases severe depression, which could lead them to isolate themselves from other people, or to have

poor academic performance or very low self-esteem as well as dropping out from the universities.

This is quite a dangerous trend because if such students are not treated early, the chances for their

situation to worsen or ultimately attempting suicide would be high. Several technologies have been

utilized to help assist clinicians and patients to confront and help mitigate health problems.

Technologies such as eHealth, or mHealth which utilizes smartphones and remote patient

monitoring systems (RPMS) have been widely used in the healthcare and are proven to be efficient

and quite reliable to help those who suffer from health issues. In this project, a remote mental

health monitoring system (RMHMS) has been proposed to enable lecturers as well as university

administration and therapists/counsellors to track students’ level of stress, anxiety and depression

and swiftly engage those who suffer from stress, anxiety and depressive symptoms. Students who

suffer from severe stress, anxiety symptoms and depression, will be given more attention by the

university’s administrations based on the information available from the remote mental health

monitoring system. The proposed system will help facilitate early interventions and treatment such

as referrer to counselling sessions or seeking psychiatric help. The system equally incorporates

alert systems to students’ friends or families and their caregivers to intimate them of their situation

too so that they may help the students to overcome their mental health issues before getting

worsened.
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Ibrahim et al. (2016) reported that psychological distress is defined as the discomfort of a

patient while experiencing symptoms of disorders or anxiety before and after treatment. It refers to

the context of strain, stress, and distress. Past research often described it as an emotional suffering

condition with symptoms of depression and anxiety. These symptoms can range from a person

showing disinterest, feeling sad, or losing hope to depression, anxiety, nervousness followed by

some somatic symptoms such as headache, fatigue, and insomnia.8 Psychological distress is not

merely associated with the inability to conduct daily chores, but it is also a measure of the other

psychiatric disorder symptoms, such as major depression and generalized anxiety disorder.

Caregivers also tend to experience social problems because of the people around them. Perceived

stigma and symptoms of depression among caregivers were significantly associated. Society often

relates serious mentally ill patients with violence and ~70% of the respondents included in their

study believed that such patients were dangerous. This leads to a stereotype and discrimination

against caregivers making it even more difficult for them to seek help and support from others. It

could also result in symptoms of serious distress such as depression, sadness, anxiety, physical

disorder, and demoralization to the stigmatized person.

Caregivers, in particular spouses, had more severe depression and a higher proportion

reporting tiredness, sadness and less satisfaction with life compared with healthy elderly subjects.

Using linear regression analysis, patient predictors of caregiver distress were depression, functional

and cognitive impairment, agitation, aberrant motor behavior and delusions. Caring for a spouse

with Parkinson's disease is associated with emotional and social distress, underlining the

importance of also assessing the needs of careers. Mental symptoms of parkinsonian patients were

the most consistent and powerful predictors of caregiver distress, suggesting that identification and
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treatment of mental symptoms may reduce distress in caregivers of subjects with Parkinson's

disease according to Karlsen et al. (1999)

The appearance of a disease is an event that impacts the life and function of patients and

their surrounding world, in the face of this each individual constructs different meanings. One form

of addressing perceptions about the process of an illness is through the explanatory model of illness

(EMI) (38), which defines a person’s conceptions about their illness, the attributed causes, and

their symptoms, which are interpreted as practical decisions in order to attend to or cure the illness.

In this sense, the IPC, as the family member who is available to meet the needs of the patient and is

responsible for making decisions in the diagnosis and treatment of the illness, deserves a separate

examination of the meaning of depression in their family member. During the investigation into the

EMIs, the perception of symptoms, the concept of depression, the illness origins, the fears around

the illness, and the impact attributed to the illness were explored. The initial depressive symptoms

that the IPCs detected in their children were in regard to changes in their behavior (irritability,

social isolation, lack of motivation) and modifications in their daily activities (abandonment of

their hobbies or failure to fulfill obligations), aspects that were not considered out of the expected.

In the words of the participants, their perception of the patients’ manifestations was it was laziness,

and that they were related to their stage of the life cycle. And although, during the interview, they

were able to recognize indicators (somatic discomfort, lack of energy, disturbances in attention and

concentration, disturbances in sleep, school failure) that could have suggested a problem beyond

everyday discomfort, the interviewees acknowledge that, at the time, they failed to recognize that

they were part of a mental illness. Informal primary caregivers normalized the manifestations of

the patients, instead of considering them part of a disease according to Olga et al. (2020).
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Bibliography

Halina, S. M., Arne K. C, Markus W. (2015). When do we need to care about the caregiver?

Supportive care needs, anxiety, and depression among informal caregivers of patients with cancer

and cancer survivors.

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Ai Wei (2020). Undergraduate Students’ Stress, Anxiety and Depression Remote Health

Monitoring System. Retrieve fromhttps://journals.iium.edu.my/kict/index.php/IJPCC/article/view/

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Ibrahim et al. (2016). Psychological distress, perceived stigma, and coping among caregivers of

patients with schizophrenia. Retrieve from

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Karlsen et al. (1999). Mental symptoms in Parkinson's disease are important contributors to

caregiver distress. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-

1166(199910)14:10<866::AID-GPS38>3.0.CO;2-Z
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Olga et al. (2020). Suffering Depression: Illness Perception of Informal Primary Caregivers of

Medical Students With Major Depressive Disorder. Retrieve from

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CHAPTER III
METHODOLOGY

Research Design

The researchers choose Ex post Facto as a research design to serve as methodology of this

study. The purpose of Ex Post Facto is to create a study with a pre-existing concept which is the

role caregiving providing physical support and changing this variable into caregiving providing

emotional support. The researchers will gather information from the students of Masbate National

Comprehensive Highschool by the means of questionnaire with open ended questions.

Source of Data

This researcher will provide questionnaires to the Grade 12 caregiving students of Masbate

National Comprehensive Highschool. The questionnaires will be given to them through online or

personally following the health protocols. It will be given to them depending on the capability of

the respondents. The gathered data from the respondents based on their personal perspective will

be the basis for the result of this research.

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Research Instrument

The researchers decided to use survey questionnaires as their research instrument to help

them gather data’s about considering the caregivers as a source of emotional support to the Grade

12 Caregiving Students of Masbate National Comprehensive Highschool. Survey questionnaires is

a method of gathering data that helps collecting opinions from different respondents. The data

collected will be analyzed to get the result.

Sampling Plan

This study will have only 10 respondents and will use availability sampling as the sampling

plan. Knowing that caregiving students are very busy, researchers decided to choose a respondent

who is available and willing to participate in this study. The researchers choose them to be

respondent because their opinion is validated and the response from them will surely be useful in

conducting this study.

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CHAPTER IV
Research Findings

Data Analysis

During the analyzation of data the researchers found out that most of the students

that participated in the research are experiencing emotional problems. There were more students

who experience anxiety than depression. However, there were some who experience both. Most of

the students receives support from their families, friends and God. However, some of them do not

receive any support at all and preferred to keep their problems by themselves. One of them stated

that she doesn’t need any support from anyone because she believes that she`s capable in

supporting herself.

The caregiving students considers mental health as a very essential thing. One of them

compared it to be important as the air that we breath. It is said to be important because having a

healthy mind will keep them away from anxiety and depression.

Most of the students are open with the concept of considering the caregivers as their source

of emotional support even if they already have their friends and family because according to the

gathered data the more support you get the more you can overcome emotional problems. Some of

them says that if there`s this thing that caregivers provides emotional support, they will surely hire

one. But some of them disagreed because they`re already contented with the support they get.
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Base on the analyzation of data, caregiver are capable of providing emotional support by

giving advices and being on the side of the student during the time where the student is being

attacked by either depression or anxiety or even both.

Interpretation

Through this research the researchers discovered that every student has their own emotional

problems to deal with and they need support to handle this kind of matters. Some of them doesn’t

need a caregiver to help them deal with their problems but others do, they need someone to help

them and if there`s any caregiver who`s wiling to provide emotional support they will hire one. In

conclusion the existence of a caregiver who provides emotional support can become a reality

however it still depends on the student who experiences emotional problems if they will hire one.
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CHAPTER V
SUMMARY, FINDINGS, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION

This chapter summarizes the result of the study followed by the conclusion based on the

findings and recommendations as a result of the data for the caregivers as a source of support in the

context of emotional health to the caregiving students so that there will be no suffering from

anxiety and depression.

A. Summary

This study aims to know if the caregiving student are open to the idea of seeking support

from the caregivers regarding their emotional health and its effects to the student’s life. The study

is also intended to provide the identified interventions to help the students suffering from anxiety,

depression and to lessen the possibility of these negative effects. The research literature and

findings support each other in terms of the factors that we consider the caregivers as a source of

support in the context of emotional health to the caregiving students.

These prompted researchers to acquire knowledge not just the factors that seeking support

from the caregivers, possible effects to the student’s life, factors that affecting the emotional health
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of caregiving student but also the identified interventions to help the students suffering from

depression.

B. Findings

In order to know the idea of seeking support from caregivers regarding who suffer from

anxiety and depression in MNCHS, the researcher used a questionnaire form. The questionnaire

includes dichotomous question, multiple-choice questions, and open-ended questions.

Based on the findings, most of the students in caregiving strands has already suffer from

anxiety and facing the current emotional problem. Some of them are not suffering from depression

but they consider the caregiver to seek emotional support.

The caregiving is mostly facing the problem in emotional health. The common reason is

that they are not seeking support from the people in the house and friends. On the other hand, they

experience anxiety and depression that need attention from family. Most of them answered they

need to seek support from caregivers to have some healthy life and healthy living. In addition, the

caregivers are great solution in the main problem of the study and they can give quality time that

the respondent needed.

The possible effects in the problem of emotional health as revealed by the respondents, if

they suffering from anxiety and depression are also identified based on the answers of the said

respondents. Most of the respondents answered that they are facing emotional problem, which are
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anxiety that most people feel nervous or stressed at some point, but when the respondent living

with anxiety, that restless feeling never really goes away. In addition, a student answered that they

need the attention from the family and friends also it is a great solution if they are seeking help and

support from caregivers.

There are also positive effects that you can have if you ask support from caregivers. One of

the respondents answered you can gain more knowledge in asking support from caregivers. That

means, a sense of giving back to someone who has cared for them and prepare the caregiving for

the hardships that he/she can go through with his life and that can surely help the caregiving

become strong.

Conclusion

The following conclusions are drawn from the study:

A. Most of the respondents in caregiving student in is currently facing the emotional problem

the affecting to the health.

B. Some of students has experience in suffering anxiety and depression who need attention

from family and friends.

C. The basis in seeking support from caregivers are getting advice or information about

practical solutions or treatment options and improving or learning healthy coping skills.

Getting a better understanding of what to expect in the future.

D. The possible effects if they didn’t give the chance of seeking support from the caregivers

are they will suffer from depression, possible to hurt themself, difficulties to cope up from

depression, possibility to end their life.

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E. Students must ask help from caregivers to be able to not suffer from depression. They must

also feel happy and relief from the problem that they are facing. Caregivers can give care to

someone who needs help taking care of themselves. The person who needs help may be a

child, an adult, or an older adult. They may need help because of an injury or disability. Or

they may have a suffer from depression.

Recommendation

Based on the findings, the researchers hereby recommend the following:

A. Give possible solutions for the identified problem encountered by the caregiving student

who suffering from anxiety and depression;

B. Ask support from caregivers if the person is suffering from anxiety.; and

C. Have different class of respondents possessing different emotion and feelings, also

respondents who have different background;

D. Questionnaires should be given to only one group of students for you to be able to get the

questionnaires back easily.

E. Ask for the advice from your research adviser.

F. Improve the identified disadvantages and advantages of the said paper.

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APPENDIX A

APPROVAL SHEET

The Research paper here to attached entitled, “CONSIDERING CAREGIVERS AS A

SOURCE OF SUPPORT IN CONTEXT OF EMOTIONAL HEALTH TO THE
CAREGIVING STUDENTS OF MASBATE NATIONAL COMPREHENSIVE HIGH
SCHOOL” prepared and submitted by MARK MARIEL ADIGUE, JESSA BOJOS, KRISTEL
MAE R. BRODETH, SHERIELYN L. DAO, as partial fulfilment of the requirement for the
subject Inquiries, Investigation and Immersion is hereby recommended for approval.

Accepted and approved in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the subject Inquiries,
Investigation and Immersion with rating of %.

MARIA DIVINA LOGRONIO ATACADOR

Inquiries, Investigation and Immersion Adviser
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APPENDIX B

Consent Form

Name (Optional): Grade/Section: ______________________

Age: Gender: ______

The undersigned confirmed that (please check the boxes)

 I voluntary agree to participate in the study.

 I have been given the opportunity to ask questions about my participation in the study.

 I have understood the information about the study.

 The procedure regarding the confidentiality have been clearly explained (e.g. use of

issues, pseudonyms, anonymity of data etc.) to me.

 I as participant, agree to sign and date this informed consent from the researchers.

Signature of Respondents
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APPENDIX C

QUESTIONNAIRE

General Directions: Read the following questions carefully and answer them with honesty. Please write
your answers on the space provided.

Name (Optional):
Section and Strand:
Electives:

1. Are you currently facing emotional problem?

____________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________
______________

2. Do you experience anxiety?

____________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________
______________

3. Do you experience depression?

____________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________
______________

4. Do you receive any emotional support? If no, do you seek it? or you keep it by yourself?
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5. From whom do you receive the support? If there’s none, where do you seek it?

____________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________
__

6. How important it is for you to maintain a good emotional health?

____________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________
______________

7. Do you consider or is there a chance for you to seek emotional support from the caregivers?
____________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________
______________

7.1. If yes, in what way do you think a caregiver can help you to deal with your emotional problems?

____________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________
______________

Your participation in this research study is voluntary. You may choose not to participate.
If you decide to participate in this research survey, you may withdraw at any time. If you decide
not to participate in this study or if you withdraw from participating at any time, you will not be
penalized. We will do our best to keep your information confidential. All data is stored in a
protected format. To help protect your confidentiality, the surveys will not contain information
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CURRICULUM VITAE

Name: Mark Mariel Adigue

Address:

Age:

Birthday:

Email:

Name of Father:

Occupation:

Name of Mother:

Occupation:

Educational Attainment

Elementary Level:

Jose Zurbito Elementary Schoo

Quezon St. Masbate City

2009-2015

Secondary Level:

Masbate National Comprehensive High School

Quezon St. Masbate City

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City SchoolsCity
MASBATE NATIONAL COMPREHENSIVE HIGH SCHOOL
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2015-2019

Senior High School Level:

Masbate National Comprehensive High School

Quezon St., Masbate City

2019-2021

Name: Jessa L. Bojos

Address: Purok 3, Brgy. Looc, Cawayan, Masbate

Age: 17

Birthday: Sep 16, 2003

Email: [email protected]

Name of Father: Roberto M. Bojos

Occupation: Bakery Owner

Name of Mother: Nenita L. Bojos

Occupation: Housewife

Educational Attainment

Elementary Level:

Naro Elementary School

Naro Masbate City

2009-2015

Secondary Level:

Naro National Highschool

Naro Masbate City

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Division ofMasbate
City SchoolsCity
MASBATE NATIONAL COMPREHENSIVE HIGH SCHOOL
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Masbate
Telephone/Fax: (056) 333-5353 City
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2015-2019

Senior High School Level:

Masbate National Comprehensive High School

Quezon St., Masbate City

2019-2021

Name: Kristel Mae R. Brodeth

Address: San Juan Mandaon Masbate

Age: 18

Birthday: May 24 2003

Email: [email protected]

Name of Father: Ruel T. Brodeth

Occupation: Teacher

Name of Mother: Necifora R. Brodeth

Occupation: Teacher

Educational Attainment

Elementary Level:

San Juan Elementary School

San Juan Mandaon, Masbate City

2009-2015

Secondary Level:

Masbate National Comprehensive High School

Quezon St. Masbate City

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Division ofMasbate
City SchoolsCity
MASBATE NATIONAL COMPREHENSIVE HIGH SCHOOL
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Masbate
Telephone/Fax: (056) 333-5353 City
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2015-2019

Senior High School Level:

Masbate National Comprehensive High School

Quezon St., Masbate City

2019-2021

Name: Sherielyn L.Dao

Address: Brgy.Pating Masbate City

Age: 18

Birthday: October 31,2002

Email: [email protected]

Name of Father: Antonio San Juan Dao

Occupation: Meat Vendor

Name of Mother: Elsie Loresca Dao

Occupation: Meat Vendor

Educational Attainment

Elementary Level:

Jose Zurbito Elementary Schoo

Quezon St. Masbate City

2009-2015

Secondary Level:

Masbate National Comprehensive High School

Quezon St. Masbate City

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Republic of Education
of the Philippines
Region V
DepartmentDivisionof of
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Region
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Division ofMasbate
City SchoolsCity
MASBATE NATIONAL COMPREHENSIVE HIGH SCHOOL
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Masbate
Telephone/Fax: (056) 333-5353 City
(056) 333- 2255 email: [email protected]

2015-2019

Senior High School Level:

Masbate National Comprehensive High School

Quezon St., Masbate City

2019-2021