The correlation between depression and body mass index in female teenagers of khoy during year 2009

The adolescents of will today constitute majority of future population. Therefore, today safe adolescent involve healthy future population by safe life style. On the other hand problems of adolescent period are dangerous factor for spirit of related depression and stats fiction from body style and size is a determination factor in self confidence. Over weight and obesity causes increasing individals depression. This study is performance to find out relationship between body mass index and depression in female adolescents in Khoy city during 2009. This is a descriptive study that performed on 200 girls selected by ral l do m ly sampling method Data were collected by questionnaire, and measurement of height and weight. data were analyzed using spss software version 13. Data are shown inean I iD and T test were applied for Data analysis. Our results indicated that 78.8% of girls was normal. 16.7% shawed minor depression and 65.7% of studied girls had normal body mamas index. One of the adolescence related psychogi c al symptoms is depression. Depression is a prevalent disorder which is identified with some alternations and it is prevalent in women. Considering and treatment of depression in decreasing weight schedules can improve individuals physical and mental health and is helpful in decreasing weight.