The Study of the relationship between family functioning and mental health among the employees of Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences

Introduction and Aim: Family provides the Psychological and physical needs of each individual and failure in its duty brings about serous problems and paying attention to its problems and trying to resolve problems. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between family functioning and mental health staff at Kurdistan University of Medical sciences.
This study was a descriptive study and the population included all the employees working at the Kurdistan University of Medical sciences who were 384 people and 185 of them were chosen using Cochran formula. Demographic questionnaire, McMaster family Questionnaire (1983), Goldverg mental Health (1972) were used and the data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.
Findings: The results showed that there was no relationship between gender or work experience with mental health but there was a significant relationship between the work place, Physical stamina and depression. tn the whole, there was a direct relationship between the workplace and the mental health (p>0.0001). Moreover, there was a notable relationship between the level of eduction and depression (one of the acpects of mental health) (p>.02) and physical (p>0.05). Furthermore, close relationship between communications (family performance) and work place (p>0.01), between playing role and work place (p>0.002). In general, there was a reverse correlation between mental health of employees and family performance.
The findings of this study showed that the family is the most effective environmental factor in the development of individuals and the mental health of every individual is positively or negatively affected by the performance of their families. As a result one of the crucial factors of mental health is family performance.