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How Iranian Women Conceptualize Mental Health: An Explanatory Model

BACKGROUND: In Iran, more than 25% of women suffer from mental disorders. Mental disorders and subclinical problems are associated with socioeconomic problem. At the community level, mental health promotion can reduce social damage. The aim of this study as a part of community based mental health pr...

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Autores principales: MIRABZADEH, Arash, FOROUZAN, Ameneh Setareh, MOHAMMADI, Farahnaz, DEJMAN, Masoumeh, BARADARAN EFTEKHARI, Monir
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4419172/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25988094
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author MIRABZADEH, Arash
FOROUZAN, Ameneh Setareh
MOHAMMADI, Farahnaz
DEJMAN, Masoumeh
BARADARAN EFTEKHARI, Monir
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description BACKGROUND: In Iran, more than 25% of women suffer from mental disorders. Mental disorders and subclinical problems are associated with socioeconomic problem. At the community level, mental health promotion can reduce social damage. The aim of this study as a part of community based mental health promotion intervention was to explore how mental health in Iranian women is viewed. METHODS: According to a qualitative method in 2012, participants were selected by purposeful sampling from married women 18 to 65 years who are residents in Tehran. Fifteen in depth individual interviews were conducted with regard to the concept of mental health, causal pathway and help-seeking behavior according to explanatory model. RESULTS: Mental health was perceived as the same of emotional well-being. It conceptualized not only lack of mental disorder but also sense of satisfaction and healthy functioning. According to participant's view, the causal pathway of mental health problems were classified to individual, familial and social factors. Physical and behavioral problems were related to individual factor, Lack of marital adjustment was one of the most important issues in familial item and in social factor, cultural context and socio-economic problems were extracted. In help seeking process, all of the participants believed that the religion has important effect in mental health. CONCLUSION: Marital adjustment is an important stage in process of mental health in women.
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spelling pubmed-44191722015-05-18 How Iranian Women Conceptualize Mental Health: An Explanatory Model MIRABZADEH, Arash FOROUZAN, Ameneh Setareh MOHAMMADI, Farahnaz DEJMAN, Masoumeh BARADARAN EFTEKHARI, Monir Iran J Public Health Original Article BACKGROUND: In Iran, more than 25% of women suffer from mental disorders. Mental disorders and subclinical problems are associated with socioeconomic problem. At the community level, mental health promotion can reduce social damage. The aim of this study as a part of community based mental health promotion intervention was to explore how mental health in Iranian women is viewed. METHODS: According to a qualitative method in 2012, participants were selected by purposeful sampling from married women 18 to 65 years who are residents in Tehran. Fifteen in depth individual interviews were conducted with regard to the concept of mental health, causal pathway and help-seeking behavior according to explanatory model. RESULTS: Mental health was perceived as the same of emotional well-being. It conceptualized not only lack of mental disorder but also sense of satisfaction and healthy functioning. According to participant's view, the causal pathway of mental health problems were classified to individual, familial and social factors. Physical and behavioral problems were related to individual factor, Lack of marital adjustment was one of the most important issues in familial item and in social factor, cultural context and socio-economic problems were extracted. In help seeking process, all of the participants believed that the religion has important effect in mental health. CONCLUSION: Marital adjustment is an important stage in process of mental health in women. Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2014-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4419172/ /pubmed/25988094 Text en Copyright © Iranian Public Health Association & Tehran University of Medical Sciences This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 3.0 Unported License which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly.
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