general health status among high school students in ilam: a cross-sectional study

Authors

ataollah hashemian

ashraf direkvand-moghadam

ali delpisheh

azadeh direkvand-moghadam

elham fathollahi

abstract

background and aims: many factors could affect on the health status. this study aimed to assess the general health status of high-school students in ilam province in 2014. methods:this cross– sectional study determined the general health status of high-school students in ilam, located in west of iran in 2014. the samples were selected by multi-stage random sampling method. data were collected by a two-part questionnaire. the first part of the questionnaire included the personal characteristics and the second part of the questionnaire contained general health questionnaire- 28 (ghq-28. results: a total of 381 students were enrolled in this study. overall 236 (61.9%) of students had healthy status. in addition, 145 (38.1%) of all participants had disorder in one or more dimensions of their general health status. the mean±sd of overall score of general health was 5.78±4.53 in healthy status students and 7.83±5.72 in disorder status students. the difference in overall score of general health was statistically significant between healthy and disorder status students (p

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Journal title:
international journal of epidemiologic research

Publisher: shahrekord university of medical sciences

ISSN

volume 2

issue 1 2015

Keywords
[ ' c r o s s s e c t i o n a l s t u d y ' , ' h i g h s c h o o l s t u d e n t s ' , ' i l a m ' , ' g h q ' , 2 8 ]

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