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General Mental Health, Quality of Life and Suicide-Related Attitudes Among Kurdish People in Iran

International journal of social psychiatry, 2008-09, Vol.54 (5), p.457-468 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2008 INIST-CNRS ;Copyright Sage Publications Ltd. Sep 2008 ;ISSN: 0020-7640 ;ISSN: 1741-2854 ;EISSN: 1741-2854 ;DOI: 10.1177/0020764008091663 ;PMID: 18786907 ;CODEN: IJSPAG

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Title:
General Mental Health, Quality of Life and Suicide-Related Attitudes Among Kurdish People in Iran
Author: Mofidi, N. ; Ghazinour, M. ; Araste, M. ; Jacobsson, L. ; Richter, J.
Subjects: Adult ; Adult and adolescent clinical studies ; Asian people ; Attitude ; Attitude towards mental illness ; Biological and medical sciences ; Ethnic Groups - statistics & numerical data ; Female ; general mental health ; general population ; Health Status ; Humans ; Intervention ; Iran - epidemiology ; Iranian Kurds ; Male ; Medical sciences ; MEDICIN ; MEDICINE ; Mental Disorders - diagnosis ; Mental Disorders - ethnology ; Mental Disorders - psychology ; Mental health ; Psychiatry ; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry ; Psychopathology. Psychiatry ; Psykiatri ; Quality of life ; Quality of Life - psychology ; Social medicine ; Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry ; Social psychology ; Socialmedicin ; suicidal attitudes ; Suicide ; Suicide, Attempted - psychology ; Suicide, Attempted - statistics & numerical data ; Suicides & suicide attempts ; Surveys and Questionnaires
Is Part Of: International journal of social psychiatry, 2008-09, Vol.54 (5), p.457-468
Description: Aim: To investigate (1) general mental health, (2) quality of life and (3) suicide-related attitudes in Kurds living in Iranian Kurdistan. Methods: Cross-sectional investigation; cluster random sampling procedure; 1,000 Kurds were randomly selected from 1,000 of 68,000 households in Sannandaj City, Iran; General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12); Questionnaire on Attitudes Towards Suicide (ATTS). Results: About 27% of the subjects had to be regarded as probably suffering from a psychological disturbance. There was no gender difference regarding the number of `cases'. These possible `cases' were younger than `non-cases'. The most `cases' occurred among the unemployed. An increasing number of experiences related to suicide and the increasing emotional closeness of those experiences was found to be related to an increased probability that the individual would be classified as a `case' according to the GHQ-12 total score. Unmarried individuals more often evaluated their overall quality of life as `moderate' or `bad' compared to married individuals. Unemployed people, self-employed people and housewives formed the groups who most often reported a `very bad' or `bad' quality of life. Conclusions: Kurdish people in Iran are in need of facilities and interventional programmes aiming to improve general mental health.
Publisher: London, England: SAGE Publications
Language: English;Swedish
Identifier: ISSN: 0020-7640
ISSN: 1741-2854
EISSN: 1741-2854
DOI: 10.1177/0020764008091663
PMID: 18786907
CODEN: IJSPAG
Source: MEDLINE
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General Mental Health, Quality of Life and Suicide-Related Attitudes Among Kurdish People in Iran

2008 INIST-CNRS ;Copyright Sage Publications Ltd. Sep 2008 ;ISSN: 0020-7640 ;ISSN: 1741-2854 ;EISSN: 1741-2854 ;DOI: 10.1177/0020764008091663 ;PMID: 18786907 ;CODEN: IJSPAG

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