introduction: during the recent decades, many scholars focused on the physical activities as an influencing factor on psychological and mental status. concerning the importance of university students’ mental health, this paper investigates the effects of physical activities on promoting their mental health. materials & methods: in this descriptive analytical study, 200 female students of shahee...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES With advances in knowledge about health promotion, public health professionals are in search for the determinants of personal health behaviours. This study was carried out to explore the level of engagement of north Indian students in health promoting behaviours; to determine their sense of coherence scores; and to ascertain the determinants of health promoting behaviour...

BACKGROUND Many young men continue to disregard the importance of contraception and family planning in South Africa. The fact that even university students also do not take contraception and family planning seriously poses a serious threat to their own health and well-being. AIM This paper aims at investigating the attitudes of male students towards contraception and the promotion of female s...

background providing the mental health of medical students has an important role in mental health of society. the aim of this research was investigating the relationship between the mental health and hardiness in medical students and comparing these variables in first and last semester medical students. material and methods the present research was correlation and matching method on first and l...

background: this study sought the relationship between social support, mental health and demographic factors in new students of tehran university (2005-06). methods: this cross-sectional descriptive study enrolled 2916 university students. subjects were evaluated using demographic questionnaire, general health questionnaire-12 and social support scale. statistical analysis was performed by anov...

the main purpose of this study is to explore the correlation between religion and mental health. therefore, using some socio-psychological theories, the study seeks to investigate the relationships between religiosity, religious orientation, perceived social support, and optimism with mental health of university students. the study has been conducted via survey method and data collected by self...

objective: considering the association between medical school dropout and psychiatric distress, we aimed to assess the prevalence of psychiatric distress among medical students at dubai medical college. methods: one hundred and three medical students were chosen randomly and were assessed by the general health questionnaire (ghq). results: the mean age for the students was 18.85 year (minimum: ...