Journal of North Khorasan

Abstract Background and Objective: It is important to pay attention to mental health in all aspects of one’s life, both in one’s personal and social life, as well as in one’s career. Neglecting the issue of mental health may result in a decrease in the efficiency and loss of human resources. It can also cause physical and mental disorders. The present research aimed to study the mental health status in Shahid Rajaei Teaching Hospital in Qazvin. Four aspects of mental health including physical, social function, anxiety and depression were studied. Materials & Methods: This research is a descriptive, cross- sectional study which was carried out from September to October 2008. The research population comprised all the employees in Shahid Rajaei Teaching Hospital and the sample comprised of 70 employees selected through randomized- stratified method. GHQ28 questionnaire was used for data collection and the analysis was done by SPSS software, using Anova and t-tests. Results: Our findings showed disturbances in all aspects of studied mental health status. Physical health and social functions were disturbed in 5.7 and 2.8% of subjects respectively. Anxiety was present in 11.4% and depression was evident in 1.4% of subjects. No correlation was found between mental disorders and variables such as age, gender, marital status, job status, education and number of children. Conclusion: According to these data an average prevalence of mental disorders is present among the personnel in Shahid Rajae Teaching Hospital which demand more attention by the authorities to improve the situation.

Abstract Background & Objectives: nowdays in daily life stress is a fact that cannot be denied from which it is impossible to separate .major stressor in individual life is job and nursing is one of the stressful professions. Because job stress causes physical and necessary to take emotional exhaustion and decreasing job efficiency ,it is some measure to subside it. Material & Method: the research carried out aiming of determining job stress in nursing personnel. The subjects of this descriptive research were 154 nurses how had the qualifications of job research unit at educational and medical centers medicine of north Khorasan using stratified random sampling. Data affiliated to school including personal and job information, degree through questionnaire of job stress which was completed by research unit. For the purposes of data analysis software, SPSS 15 depending on the appropriateness of the methods of descriptive statistics, chi-square test, t test, ANOVA and post hoc Tukey test was used. Result: major findings of this research showed that 62 percent of research units reported job stress with low amount, 30 percent job stress with medium amount and 8 percent job stress with high amount. Conclusion: the decrease in job stress can be the result the high application of coping strategies that need further studies.