The Relationship between General Health and High Risk Behavior among Students of Sabzevar Universities

Awareness of status of General health of students and identifying cases that are at risk due to lack of appropriate social support and the signs of vulnerability can help university officials to provide more effective prevention interventions programs to promote mental health of students. This research aimed to study general health of Sabzevar universities students and its relationship with high-risk behaviors. This study is descriptive correlation that was conducted on921 students in the year 2011-2012. Data were collected by a written questionnaire that includes the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) and Youth Risk-Taking Scale (YRS). Pearson correlation, independent “t-test”, analysis of variance and scheffe were applied to analyze the data through the SPSS. The results showed that the mean scores of students are in high risk behavior 46/36 ± 15/29 General Health 80/27 ± 8/71. Also there was significant relationship between student's mental health and high-risk behaviors (p<0/001). The measure of general health in medical science students was less rather than other students (p<0/05). Also the measure of general health was more between men against women, Master students against Bachelor (p<0/01). But there wasn’t a significant difference between single students against married students (p>0/05). The results showed that there was relationship between the students’ general health and their high risk behaviors.