Factors in Nursing Students from Southeastern Iran

Objective. To evaluate the state of mental health and its relation with associated factors among nursing students. Methods. A cross-sectional study was conducted with 130 students from the Nursing and Midwifery College affiliated to the University of Medical Sciences of Shiraz (Iran). Data was collected through a document that included information on the demographic characteristics, the mean grades of the practical assignments and of the total (practical and theoretical assignments), and the Goldberg Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28) that measures symptoms grouped into four dimensions (somatic symptoms, anxiety and insomnia, social dysfunction, and depression). Results. Most of the participants (65.1%) were women; 5.3% were between 21 and 22 years of age, 84.5% were single, and 33.3% were in the sixth semester; 68.5% of State of Mental Health and Associated Factors in Nursing Students from Southeastern Iran Zinat Mohebbi1 Giti Setoodeh2 Camelia Torabizadeh3 Masoume Rambod4 1 Ph.D. Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. Email: mohebbi04@yahoo.com. Corresponding author. 2 Ph.D. Candidate. Department of Psychiatric Nursing, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. Email: setoodeh@sums.ac.ir 3 Ph.D. Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. 4 Ph.D. Community Based Psychiatric Care Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. Conflicts of interest: none. Received: November 20th, 2018. Approved: September 30th, 2019. How to cite this article: Mohebbi Z, Setoodeh G, Torabizadeh C, Rambod M. State of Mental Health and Associated Factors in Nursing Students from Southeastern Iran. Invest. Educ. Enferm. 2019; 37(3):e04. DOI: 10.17533/udea.iee.v37n3e04.