The Role of Kindergartens in Raising Children's Awareness of Some Health Culture Concepts from the Perspective of Kindergarten Teachers

Abstract

   This research aims to study "The Role of Kindergartens in Raising Children's Awareness of Some Health Culture Concepts from the Perspective of Kindergarten Teachers" during the 2025–2026 academic year. The study sample consisted of (100) kindergarten teachers geographically distributed in the Erbil Governorate. The researcher adopted a descriptive approach to achieve the research objectives and used a scale to measure the level of awareness of health culture concepts. The scale consisted of five main concepts, with ten items for each concept: (personal hygiene, healthy nutrition, accident and emergency prevention, environmental health, and diseases and their prevention). After collecting and analyzing the data using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) programe, the research concluded that:

the data using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS)

Kindergartens play an important role in raising children's awareness of health culture concepts. The results showed that the level of awareness of the five health concepts—personal hygiene, healthy nutrition, accident and emergency prevention, environmental health, and diseases and their prevention—was statistically significant.

Kindergarten is considered a very important learning stage in that it plays an important role in increasing the development of children's mental, physical, social, behavioral and behavioral abilities. Children in kindergarten need health and mental care. It also requires an appropriate environment, programs and activities that work on intelligence and development, the effects of long-term factors that contribute to learning, and adaptation to others and the community inside and outside the kindergarten

Nowadays, a significant number of children are at risk of getting sick in childhood due to unhealthy habits and the wrong food culture that is prevalent in many families Children with various diseases