STUDY OBJECTIVE To test hypotheses about associations between area level exposures and the prevalence of the most common mental disorders (CMD) in Britain. A statistically significant urban-rural gradient was predicted, but not a socioeconomic gradient, in the prevalence of CMD after adjusting for characteristics of individual respondents. The study tested the hypothesis that the effects of are...

For any informed decision making about community-oriented nursing, it is necessary to map out the community regarding the psychological factors. This study is an attempt to estimate the mental disorders' rate among the age group of 15-65 in the urban areas of Ardabil province. A sample of 1430 individuals was selected through random multistage cluster sampling. The instruments employed in this ...

Background: The 28-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) is constructed on the basis of a principal components analysis of the GHQ-60 (28 items selected and grouped under four subscales). When used on a Spanish population, a translation of the GHQ-28 developed for an English population logically yields worse predictive values. Methods: Data from a community study conducted in a town near Madr...

INTRODUCTION Post-partum depression (PPD) is the most prevalent mental problem associated with childbirth. The purpose of the present study was to determine the incidence of early PPD and possible relevant risk factors among women attending primary health centers in Mazandaran province, Iran for the first time. MATERIAL AND METHODS A longitudinal cohort study was conducted among 2279 eligible...

Studies investigating the impact of combining paid work and family life on wellbeing have generally used information at one or a limited number of points in the life course, and have mainly focused on women. This study uses multi-channel sequence analysis to characterise work-family life courses across adulthood (ages 16-60) for more than 1500 men and women in the MRC National Study of Health a...

the aim of this study was to investigate the mental health state of high school students of hamideyh branch ahvaz city. the present survey was an analytical study. a sample of 305 (93 girl and 212 boy) students was selected using random stratified sampling and proportion and base of krejcie and morgan table from primary to college years high school students in suburb of ahvaz township and compl...