A survey of Mental Health and It's Relevant Factors in Above 15 Years Old Urbanite Subjects in Kurdistan Province

In recent decades many changes have seen in scientific attitude toward mental health. The traditional approach that described mental health as lack of psychiatric disorders is substituted with a comprehensive approach. This comprehensive approach leads to epidemiological researches in this regard. In this survey mental health was studied in urbanite subjects older than 15 years in Kurdistan province. In this cross-sectional study 2855 subjects were selected by means of a multistage random sampling. Data was collected by a researcher-designed and “GHQ 28” questionnaires. Collected data was analyzed by chi-square and percentage using SPSS-win software. The results showed that 35.7% of subjects were not healthy mentaly. There were significant relationships between occupation, dimension of family and mental health (P=0.000). There was not relation between sex or educatioal level and mental health. The results of this study was in aggrement with the other results obtained in other parts of the Iran. The only difference was higher prevalence of the disease in the subjects younger than 30 years old in the province that may be due to high rate of unemployment and lack of adequate sport and amusing facilities for this age range.