survey on general health among students of guidance schools

ABSTRACT

In recent years, the prevalence of mental disorders has increased and the prevalence of 18-23% is reported for Iran. This study aims to evaluate psychological aspect of general health status of children in Ilam city, located in Iran using a questionnaire. This study is a descriptive-comparative research that measures general health of boys and girls in schools. The required information is obtained by means of the GHQ-28 standard questionnaire which distributed among 118 children. The general health is divided into four categories, in which the dangerous group receives the higher scores in the range of 64-84. The SPSS software is used for data analysis. The sample consisted of 64 [54%] boys and 54 [46%] girls and overall score of children are classified into four categories. Among the samples, 38 participants [32.2%], 61 children [51.7%], 17 children [14.7%] and two persons [1.7%] are received the scores of 0-21, 22-42, 43-63 and 64-84, respectively. Also, the statistical association is observed between age, grade and general health of participants [P <0.05]. Relatively large numbers of children possessed good general health status. It is found that as age of participant is increased its general health degrades