A STUDY ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MENTAL HEALTH AND INTERNAL FACTORS AMONG PUBLIC HEALTH STUDENTS IN URMIA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES

This s tudy tries to investigate the relationship between mental health and internal factors among public health students in Urmia Medical Sciences University. Internal factors of the university are studied in three dimensions as cultural, educational and welfare factors. The statistical population included all BSc. degree female students of Public Health faculty in Urmia Medical Sciences University. From 5 00 individuals, 220 students were chosen based on Morgan table and random sampling. The research method is descriptive – correlation al one. For data collection, two types of questionnaires on Goldberg general health and internal factors of university have been used. T heir reliabilities were estimated by Cronbach's alpha to be 0.84 and 0.82. Data analysis is performed by SPSS software, using descriptive and inferential statistics such as Pearson correlation and regression. The results show that between the quality of work life and optimized performance is a positive correlation (qua Fair pay with r=0.117), Safe working environment with r=0.119, Provid ing promotion opportunities with r= 0.279, and Social ties with r= 0.223 which are related to improvement of performance. Therefore, it is recommended to the administrators of the universities to pay more attention to the quality of employees working life in order to achieve optimal performance. The main findings include d that there are significant correlation between the cultural, educational and mental health among female students. Also, results of the regression test show ed that only counseling facilities could estimate mental health, so administers should pay more attention to the cultural, educational and welfare factors.