SYMPOSIA
SYMPOSIA
SYMPOSIA
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Poster Presentations<br />
[PP-054] Ref. No: 153<br />
The relationship between mental health and academic achievement among<br />
Kordestan high school students<br />
Fayegh Yousefi, Srwa Mohamadzadeh<br />
Department of Psychiatry at Kordestan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Kordestan, Iran<br />
E-mail: fyousefi_kms@yahoo.com<br />
Objective: Academic achievement is one of the important factors to which parents, teachers and society pay attention and also, it is<br />
related to students’ mental health. The main objective in the present study was to determine the relationship between students’ mental<br />
health and their academic achievement.<br />
Method: The sample of this study was 1662 high school students (765 males and 908 females) in the age range of 14-19 years. The<br />
sampling method of this study satisfied random sampling. Also, data were gathered by using the GHQ-28. The GHQ-28 is an instrument<br />
to determine mental health and it includes four scales measuring depression, anxiety, somatization and social function. The reliability of<br />
this scale is 0.91 by Cronbach’s alpha.<br />
Results: The results of the present study showed that 45.4% of the respondents had a lack of mental health. Based on the results of the<br />
current study, the low rate of lack of mental health (42.2%) was in the first grade of high school while, the high rate of loss of mental health<br />
were among Pre-University students.<br />
In addition, the results from the present study indicated that there is significant relationship between the education of the respondents’<br />
father and students’ mental health (p
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