[Mental health status of nursing staff]

ABSTRACT

Mental health disorders are common problems among helping professionals such as nurses that create many psychosocial problems. This study aims to determine the mental health status of nursing staff. it was a descriptive, cross-sectional study .All of nursing personnel [n=92] in Fateme Zahra hospital in Najafabad city were recruited by census .Data was collected by The Symptom Checklist-90-R [SCL-90] and analyzed by descriptive statistics, t-test and ANOVA using SPSS-PC [v. 11.5]. The finding showed that%81.1 of nurses was healthy and 18.9% of them were exposed to mental disorders .The most prevalent disorders were 7.3% somatic disorders, 5.8% paranoid thoughts and%5 anxieties. According to the findings, more attention should be paid to mental health of nursing staff to improve quality care and to retain nurses