چکیده:
Mental health in the society is one of the pivots for assessment of health in different
societies. According to studies mental disorders are one of the main and most significant
parts of the total burden of diseases and it is predicted that mental and neurological
disorders’ share of total burden of diseases is increased 50 percent by 2020 and reaches 15
percent, up from the present 10.5 percent .this study is a descriptive-analytical study that
was conducted in winter 2014. The population of the study is consisted of 423 employees of
health sector in the Kohgiloye County which entered the study using census method. The
data were collected using the standard General Health Questionnaire-28 (GHQ-28) and were
analyzed by SPSS using descriptive and inferential statistics. the samples were consisted of
236 males and 187 females. Significant relationships were found between sex and general
health (P<0.001), between marital status and general health (P<0.021), between education
level and general health (P<0.002), between work experience and general health (P<0.02)
and between workplace and general health (P<0.02). However, no significant relationship of
occupation, age and monthly income with general health was found. the findings of this
study indicated that mental disorders are prevalent in the employees of the health sector in
Kohgiloye County to an average extent. Therefore, authorities should pay attention to
mental health in these individuals and improve their general health status by creating
interventional programs.
خلاصه ماشینی:
A study of general health status in employees of health sector in Kohkiloye County in 2014 Elahe Pirai Master of epidemiology student-Isfahan- Isfahan University of Medical Sciences- faculty of Health Original Article: Received 17 Dec. 2016 Accepted 1 Jan. 2017 Published 28 Jan. 2017 ABSTRACT Mental health in the society is one of the pivots for assessment of health in differentsocieties.
One of the main domains of health development in societies is health and medical sector that has a direct relationship with human health and in this regard, hospital employees and especially nurses are considered as individuals with a stressful job ( Lambert, V.
E. , 2001) and therefor, the present study is conducted for identifying and understanding employees’ problems so that its results are used for providing counseling services, improvement of general health in employees and prevention of wasting human power and economic resources of the young and active workforce.
74) and the lowest score was related to the individuals with 1-5 years of work experience and the study indicated a significant relationship between the overall score of general health and work experience (p=0.
The results regarding the relationship between genera health and workplace indicated the highest means of general health score belonged to individuals working in medical centers (25.
Iranian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Research Vol 5 Issue 1 (2017) Table 2: the distribution of absolute and relative frequencies of general health components based on the demographic variables in the individuals explored به تصویر صفحه مراجعه شود)) As table 2 show, the chi-square test did not show a relationship of education level, job type and workplace with general health.