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Introduction: University student in dormitory perceive multiple stressors during educational experience, that can lead to disruption in mental health status. The purpose of this study was to determine, mental health status of university students in dormitory
Method: This is a descriptive-analytic study, 162 university students from 7 dormitory of University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Science were selected by proportional sampling. The instruments for collection data were demographic data, General Health Questionnaire. Analysis was done by t-independent Mann Whitney U, Kruskal Wallis, Pearson correlation, Chi-squre, Kolmogrov-smirnov by using SPSS software and 95 percent coefficient
Results: Findings showed that 54.3 percent [88 person] of university students were suspect for mental disorders. The high mean was related to social function disorder and then sleep disorder and anxiety, physical symptoms and depression. There was negative significant relation between age, education term, dormitory living time and mental health status [P<0.05]
Conclusion: According to our findings, university students in dormitory are at risk for mental disorder, because some factors. Therefore, it is necessary to try for removing factors that relate to this problem