Evaluation of General Mental Health of Nursing Students of Lorestan University of Medical Sciences

Mental health includes an inner sense of wellbeing, ensure self-efficiency, competitive capacity, intergenerational dependence and self-actualization the potential intellectual ability, emotional and... .of course, considering the cultural differences, it is not possible to give a comprehensive definition of mental health. However, all comments agree that absence the mental disorders alone, is not the mental health and it is important as physical health.Nursing is component of other fields that students are suffering from anxiety according to importance future job, facing stressful conditions in internship periods and anxiety from standing in like place in future.In this paper we want to study about mental health of nursing students of Lorestan University of medical sciences in 2010- October.Methods:In this Cross-Sectional descriptive study, 100 nursing students selected by randomized manner. We used GHQ questionnaire (28 questions) for this study.After collection, data was analyzed by SPSS version 17.Results:The results are as follows:The mean student’s age was 21.41±0.82. 35% of students were male and 65% were female. After review and rating, the average participants score was 22.9. P value between gender and mental health was 0.001 and P value between educational years and mental health was 0.001, too.Conclusion:According to the results, the mental health of nursing students is in a threatening situation, especially in females.There was a significant relationship between gender and mental health (p<0.5) There was a significant relationship between educational years and mental health (p<0.5), too.Therefore it s necessary to identification detrimental factors to upgrade mentally health and social performance and remove this factors.

کلیدواژه ها:

Gender ، Educational years ، Mental health ، Nursing students