EVALUATION THE CORRELATION BETWEEN GENERAL HEALTH STATUS AND HAPPINESS WITH FAMILY’ CHILD-NUMBER IN HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS

Psychological health has an important role in efficacy of the communities. The
psychological health status of girls at their adolescence is an effective factor on their behavioral
manifestations. Regarding the families willing for having a single-child, the current study conducted to
assess the relationship between single-child being and multi-child being on general health and happiness
score of high school girls in Qom.
Materials & Methods: A cross sectional study conducted on 341 girl students in 2016. The general
health (GHQ-28) and happiness questionnaires were used for data collection. Analysis of Variance and
Pearson correlation coefficient tests were used for data analyses.
Results: According to the general health score, 51% of the students were affected by psychological
disorders, and 53.3% of them were affected by abnormal happiness. The mean score of happiness in
high school girls was 39.6±16.4 and the mean of general health was 27.5±15.5. The mean score of
happiness in single-child, two-child, and multi-child families were 40±15.9, 36.1±15.6, and 40.3±17.6,
respectively, which were statistically significant. On the other hand, the mean of general health in singlechild, two-child, and multi-child families were 26.5±14.3, 29.6±16.1 and 25.9±14.1, respectively that
was not statistically significant (p<0.05). There was a significant correlation between happiness and
general health scores (p<0.05).
Conclusion: According to our results, the general health and happiness in single child girls were lower
than two-child and multi-child. In addition, among four subscale of general health, the prevalence of
anxiety was higher than other subscales in single children. Regarding the results of the present study,
much more attention should be paid to the psychological status of high school girls as the future mothers
of our community