Systematic review of student's social problems in Iran

Along with the increase in the young population and students’ population in the country, the social problems and harms they are struggling with grow as well. This issue increases the need to pay attention to young people, especially students, who are the elite and educated of the society.Although there have been macro and micro studies in the provinces and the country, but they were generally cross-sectional and rarely studied the trend of the changes of social problems among students. However, it is necessary to categorize the studies in the field of student’s social problems in order to provide a clear and distinctive plan that researchers can opt for their research topics that need more analysis. Therefore, current study aimed to recognize the most important social problems of student’s life in Iran through a systematic review of all previous studies to present a comprehensive and novel approach to identify and analyze the most important social problems of student’s population that can prevent loss of financial costs and policy-related mistakes .The systematic review included electronic searches in “Elmnet, Irandoc, Magiran, and SID” during 1996 to 2016 period. The review and analysis of 35 studies showed that most of them didn’t have an appropriate approach in choosing the most significant social problems among massive social problems. Finally, using a mixed approach, social problems such as citizens’ ethics, life expectancy, life satisfaction, inequality feelings, law escaping, brain drain and high risks behaviors were identified.