Mental health survey of adult population in Kermanshah County, 2015: Preliminary report.

Abstract

Policies for mental health care are improving in Iran and accurate data is needed. There is no population based study about mental health from West of Iran.The study population was the entire adult (18 years old and above) inhabitants of Kermanshah county (the city and the related rural area). This population was 656683 from whom 83.6% lived in urban area and 16.4% lived in rural area. General health questionnaire (GHQ)-28 was completed by a randomly selected cluster sample (84.1% response rate)of urban and rural area of Kermanshah county, 2015.A positive result was achieved from 39.1% (out of 2102). It was not related to gender, age group, job or marital status but illiterate participants, and those with lower economic level had higher scores.A considerable proportion of Kermanshah inhabitants, were screened positive for general health problems.