The Survey of relationship between social support with mental health of students in Kerman medical university

Mental health, the playing an important role in ensuring consistent and efficient in any society and is one of the areas of the different communities, health evaluation is considered. Since the students in each community of the most important forces affecting developing countries are considered. Therefore, this study done to aimed determine the relationship between social support and mental health. The statistical population consists of 1509 member of the undergraduate students, is studying in the Kerman University of Medical Sciences in 2014. In this study, 500 students were selected of the entire population by method Random sampling and by using of General Health Questionnaire-12 (GHQ-12) and and Multidimensional Scale of Perceved Social Support (MSPSS) were measured. For the analyze data addition to descriptive statistics,of the inferential statistical methods including: Pearson correlation coefficient, t-test and linear regression analysis by SPSS software. The findings this study showed which significant correlation between social support and mental health of students (P<0.0001, r=0.33). Among the subscales of social support, social support to the family, the social support, life-critical and social support from friends are most relevant to mental health (P<0.0001). also The linear regression model showed that social supporting predicts the 11 percent of the variance in mental health. The findings showed which mental health the student's whit increasing their perception of social support,that find more favorable and by reducing the sources of the supporting, their mental health is endangered.