مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی ایلام
سال هجدهم شماره 2 (پیاپی 67، تابستان 1389)

At the beginning of the third millennium, many organizations are responsible of protecting and promoting health as well as preventing and treating mental and physical illnesses. In spite of the modern advances in medical sciences, one of the current concerns in health is the increase in mental disorders among the youth. This study aimed to determine the relationship between clinical features of university students and its demographic correlates.

This was a descriptive–analytical sort of research. The aimed population of the study included all the university students studying at Ilam Islamic Azad University during 2007-8, of whom 478 students were selected based on Morgan’s sampling table and using stratified sampling model. The two used means in our study to collect the data included: a GHQ28 Questionnaire and a personal plus demographic questionnaire containing six items.

43.3% of the investigated sample got a mark lower than the cut–off point, whom were considered “healthy“regarding the clinical features. 56.7% of the samples scored more than the cut–off point, whom were suspected to have a sort of mental disorder. Among the subscales, most the symptoms were reported to be related to “anxiety“and “physical symptoms” of female students, with “depression” and “disorder in social performance“ranking the third and forth, respectively. Comparing their average points of mental health, a significant difference was found between the male and female students in A and B subscales, that is the physical symptoms and anxiety, and there was no significant difference in C and D subscales, that is “disorder in social performance and depression“. The results obtained from MANOVA indicated a significant difference between the students with different majors in A, B, and D subscales and there were no differences among them in C subscale. In addition, there was a significant relationship between the gender and health. However, no significant relationship was found between age, marital status, major, and locality of the students. Discussion &

Students are the cornerstones of universities as well as the major cause of development and progress. Thus, they can manage in their responsibilities just, if they enjoy the necessary general good health. The finds of our research reveals that more than half of the students suffer from psychological disorders. Undoubtedly, progress and development are termed to educational concepts, the strategies that enable individuals to control their own health and growth.

Empowering is a set of procedures to develop capacities of the employee to direct the organization and workforce towards productivity. Therefore, the role of an organization is building infrastructure to empowering interventions. The goal was to study the status of empowerment in center of management for Medical Emergencies and Accidents in Iran.

In this descriptive study, 1576 employees including all the personnel in 6 centers including Ilam, Bushehr, Mazandaran, Ardebil, West Azerbaijan and Yazd, and a half of personnel of Tehran, Sistan–Baluchestan, Khorasan-razavi and Isfahan were selected. Modified Scott & Jaffe empowerment questionnaire with 10 subscales and 38 Likert type items was used and after assuring content validity, its reliability was confirmed through a test–retest study (α =0.91.4) and internal consistency (0.81.5). Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, one sample T Test, and ANOVA.

The mean of total score 2.35±0.18 and its 10 subscales were significantly lower than the expected mean (2.80) and scores of subscales except for fair behavior that (1.79) was in moderate range. The mean score of objective clarity was in the highest level. Total mean differed significantly according to gender, shift, job group, field of study, and employment status. Total mean increased along the age until 44, and years occupation precedence. Discussion &

The status of empowerment was in moderate range. There was need to consider fairness in payments, improvement systems for performance evaluation and awards, information & encouraging teamworks, continuous education and developing further interventions for empowerment.