a survey on general health among students of guidance schools

in recent years, the prevalence of mental disorders has increased and the prevalence of 18-23% is reported for iran. this study aims to evaluate psychological aspect of general health status of children in ilam city, located in iran using a questionnaire. this study is a descriptive-comparative research that measures general health of boys and girls in schools. the required information is obtained by means of the ghq-28 standard questionnaire which distributed among 118 children. the general health is divided into four categories, in which the dangerous group receives the higher scores in the range of 64-84. the spss software is used for data analysis. the sample consisted of 64 (54%) boys and 54 (46%) girls and overall score of children are classified into four categories. among the samples, 38 participants (32.2%), 61 children (51.7%), 17 children (14.7%) and two persons (1.7%) are received the scores of 0-21, 22-42, 43-63 and 64-84, respectively. also, the statistical association is observed between age, grade and general health of participants ( p <0.05 ). relatively large numbers of children possessed good general health status. it is found that as age of participant is increased its general health degrades.