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Volume 16, Issue 2 (10-2010)                   Intern Med Today 2010, 16(2): 45-51 | Back to browse issues page

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Tavakolizadeh J, Khodadadi Z. Assessment of Mental Health Among Freshmen Entering the First Semester in Gonabad University of Medical Sciences in 2009-2010. Intern Med Today 2010; 16 (2) :45-51
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  Background and Aim: Familiarity with mental status of students at the beginning of education has a basic role in acquiring mental health and their academic achievement. Thus, this study was carried out with the general objective of determining the mental health among the freshmen in their first term in Gonabad University of Medical Sciences in 2009-2010.

  Materials and Methods: This descriptive-analytic study was carried out on all freshmen (136 students) of Gonabad University of Medical Sciences entering the first semester in 2009-2010. The data were collected using GHQ-28 and demographic questionnaire. To determine suspicious cases, the cut-off point of total score was set as 28 and in each scale it was set as 6. The data were analyzed by SPSS software version 11 using descriptive and analytical statistics (Chi-square and T-test). The significant level was set as 0.05.

  Results: This study showed that 31.6% of students are suspected to have psychological disorders. These disorders among males and females were 27% and 33 % (p=0.599), and among single and married students were 31% and 33% (p=0.909), respectively. But each of these differences in demographic factors was not statistically significant. The comparison of the mean scores in test scales showed that the mean scores of social dysfunction (9 ± 3.65) and somatization (4.95 ± 3.13) were more than anxiety (4.15 ± 3.55) and depression (2.07 ± 2.89) scales, respectively. By using the cut-off point 6 at these scales, it was indicated that the students have a bad condition on social dysfunction and somatization, but there were not significant differences between these scores and gender (p=0.891), marital status (p=0.220) and academic courses (p=0.455).

  Conclusion: With regard to these results, symptoms related to social conflict at the beginning of study in students were more common than other symptoms. Confirming the existence of mental disorders in students requires more psychological investigation and assessment for students. Thus, providing counseling and psychological services based on the findings are recommended.

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Received: 2010/10/10 | Published: 2010/10/15

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