Assessment the mental health of Nursing

Identify of mental disorders is very important, because these disorders can decrease the success rate of educational progress in students and prevent their further achievements. This study aimed to identify the mental health in Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedical student’s of Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences, 2014 .
In this descriptive cross-sectional study, 400 students who had inclusion criteria were selected by randomized stratified sampling. The demographic and SCL-90-R questionnaire (Symptom Checklist 1990 Revised) was used for data collection. Data were analyzed by SPSS software version 18 and using regression and independent t test.
Findings: According to the results, 36% of the students were in good mental health and 64% suspected to have mental disorders (50/9% mild, 10/9% moderate and 2/2% severe). The most disorder between students was interpersonal sensitivity and the least disorder was phobia anxiety. There was a statistical differences between the sex and mental disorders (t test, P According to the results, mental disorders specially interpersonal sensitivity have high prevalence among students. Thus consideration of managers to this results and activities such as entertainment, cultural and spiritual programs are recommended.