Health Related Quality of Life in Adolescents: Mental Health, SocioEconomic Status, Gender, and Age Differences

the present study was aimed to examine Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) regarding mental health, socio-economic status, gender and age differences in students. Five hundreds and fifty one middle school and high school students (275 females, 276 males) were selected using multistage cluster sampling. The participants completed the KIDSCREEN-52 HealthRelated Quality of Life Questionnaire (Raven-Sieberer & et al, 2005), the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (Goodman, 1997), and the Socio-economic Status Questionnaire (Garmaroodi & Moradi, 2010). The results indicated that 1) boys scored higher than girls in physical well-being, social support and peers, self-autonomy, psychological well-being, relationships with parents, and family life scales, 2) the middle school students had higher scores than the high school students in all KIDSCREEN scales except for social supports and peers, social acceptance, bullying, and financial resource, and 3) the differences between students with low and high socioeconomic status were significant in physical well-being, relationships with parents and family life, financial resource, and psychological well-being. The results of one way analysis of variance (ANOVA) for comparsion of normal, borderline and abnormal groups indicated that normal group scored higher than abnormal group in mood and emotions, social acceptance, bullying, psychological well-being, and self perception.