Background:Nowadays, infertility problems have become a social concern, and are associated with multiple psychological and social problems. Also, it affects the interpersonal communication between the individual, familial, and social characteristics. Since women are exposed to stressors of physical, mental, social factors, and treatment of infertility, providing a psychometric screening tool is necessary for disorders of this group. Objective:The aim of this study was to determine the factor structure of the general health questionnaire-28 to discover mental disorders in infertile women.Materials and Methods: In this study, 220 infertile women undergoing treatment of infertility were selected from the Yazd Research and Clinical Center for Infertility with convenience sampling in 2011. After completing the general health questionnaire by the project manager, validity and, reliability of the questionnaire were calculated by confirmatory factor structure and Cronbach's alpha, respectively.Results:Four factors, including anxiety and insomnia, social dysfunction, depression, and physical symptoms were extracted from the factor structure. 50.12% of the total variance was explained by four factors. The reliability coefficient of the questionnaire was obtained 0.90.Conclusion:Analysis of the factor structure and reliability of General Health Questionnaire-28 showed that it is suitable as a screening instrument for assessing general health of infertile women.
Background: Depression is considered as one of the most important etiological academic failure in educational systems , that induced decrease social, professional and educational performance, therefore, recognize this problem is necessary for suppression educational failure in students and increase social position in the academic period and increase mental health in educational society. The aim of this study was determine prevalence depression in the medical students also the relationship with educational failure in the jahrom university medical science. Material and method: This cross-sectional study was performed on all students (150) , this study had two groups students; successful and unsuccessful students. A Beck questionnaire as well as a questionnaire for personal data especially those related to depression were used, the collected data was statistically analyzed using SPSS. Results: 45.5 percent students had mild to severe depression and there was relationship between depression and academic achievement (po/oo4),75 percent successful students and 39.4 percent unsuccessful students had mild to moderate depression. There was no significant relationship between depression and sex, academic major, occupation and level of parental education. Conclusion: According to the findings, There are high prevalence sense of depression especially between unsuccessful students therefore, the follow up of mental health and personality and activation of mental consultaion centers is necessary.
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