Study of Mental Health in Tehran's Adolescents and Youngs

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the mental health of adolescents and young people in Tehran. The sample included 464 girls and boys from age 15-30 years. The GHQ-28 scale designed by Goldberg and Hiller (1979) used for screening the mental illness people from normal ones. This test composed of 4 subscales: anxiety disorder, somatoform disorder, social dysfunction and depression disorder.The result of this study indicates that 29.3 percent of people have mental illness, and there is a significant difference between males and Females and between single people and married people. Also there is a correlation between age and mental health and the most prevalence disorder is social dysfunction.