A survey of Happiness in students of medical records and health information technology in Ahvaz Jondishapur University of Medical Sciences

Happiness is one of the most important concepts in their everyday people life. The aim of this study was to survey the amount of happiness among students in medical records and health information technology in School of Paramedical Sciences of Ahvaz Jondishapur University of Medical Sciences. This descriptive research was conducted in the half of 2011. The population of study was includes Students of medical records and health information technology in Ahvaz Jondishapur University of Medical Sciencess. 91 students were selected randomly. The Oxford Happiness Questionnaire was used to measure happiness, Validity and reliability had been confirmed in previous studies. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics in SPSS (version 15) software. The results indicated there is no statistically significant relationship between the happiness and factors such as education, gender, marital status, age, field of Education, and course and semester(p<.05), but as description statistic the male students were happier than female students, married students happier than single students and younger student happier than older students. Also, with increase the number of semester weve seen a decline in student happiness. The results indicated that the married students were happier than single students. In explaining this finding, it can be said that there is relationship between happiness and feel of belong.. More happiness in student with primary semesters is due to entrance to the new environment.