A STUDY ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MENTAL HEALTH AND INTERNAL FACTORS AMONG PUBLIC HEALTH STUDENTS IN URMIA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES

This study tries to investigate the relationship between mental health and internal
factors among public health students in Urmia Medical Sciences University. Internal factors of the
university are studied in three dimensions as cultural, educational and welfare factors.
Materials & Methods: The statistical population included all BSc. degree female students of Public
Health faculty in Urmia Medical Sciences University. From 500 individuals, 220 students were chosen
based on Morgan table and random sampling. The research method is descriptive – correlational one.
For data collection, two types of questionnaires on Goldberg general health and internal factors of
university have been used. Their reliabilities were estimated by Cronbach's alpha to be 0.84 and 0.82.
Data analysis is performed by SPSS software, using descriptive and inferential statistics such as
Pearson correlation and regression.
Results: The results show that between the quality of work life and optimized performance is a
positive correlation ( qua Fair pay with r=0.117), Safe working environment with r=0.119, Providing
promotion opportunities with r= 0.279, and Social ties with r= 0.223 which are related to improvement
of performance. Therefore, it is recommended to the administrators of the universities to pay more
attention to the quality of employees working life in order to achieve optimal performance. The main
findings included that there are significant correlation between the cultural, educational and mental
health among female students.
Conclusion: Also, results of the regression test showed that only counseling facilities could estimate
mental health, so administers should pay more attention to the cultural, educational and welfare
factors