Mohammad Hasan Yazdani; Hosan Derakhshan; asghar pashazadeh; fatemeh zadvali
Abstract
Today, two factors, poverty and mental health, are among the most important and influential issues related to informal settlements. Since it seems necessary to address the issue of poverty and health in order to provide, maintain and promote the health of people in marginalized areas, it is necessary ...
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Today, two factors, poverty and mental health, are among the most important and influential issues related to informal settlements. Since it seems necessary to address the issue of poverty and health in order to provide, maintain and promote the health of people in marginalized areas, it is necessary to examine the causal relationship between poverty and health and assess their impact on the lives of marginalized citizens. Therefore, the aim of the present study is to analyze the effects of poverty on mental health in the study area. In this regard, the present study is in terms of applied purpose, in terms of descriptive-analytical nature. The statistical population of this study is citizens living in the suburbs of Ardabil (Iranabad) (4,000 people). 352 people were determined by Cochran's mathematical formula method and they were sampled by simple random method. In this regard, in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the components of poor poverty and mental health, the structural analysis model of partial minimum squares in the form of Smart-PLS software has been used. The research results also show that there is a significant and inverse relationship between ability poverty and health and this type of poverty has a high impact on the mental health of citizens.
tvakoli aghayariher; mohammad abaszadeh; faranak geravand
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This article aims to study the relationship between some individual and neighborhood factors and mental health among 18-65-year-old citizens of Tehran. The survey method has been used the data has been gathered from 448 citizens in 25 neighborhoods in the city through multistage cluster sampling technique. ...
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This article aims to study the relationship between some individual and neighborhood factors and mental health among 18-65-year-old citizens of Tehran. The survey method has been used the data has been gathered from 448 citizens in 25 neighborhoods in the city through multistage cluster sampling technique. The data has been analyzed using SPSS. To study the simultaneous effects of individual and neighborhood factors, a 2-level linear regression model has been employed. The results indicate that the level of mental health among Tehran citizens is 4.46 (on a 1.2-6-point scale) and medium to high; and based on taking bivariate analysis, all individual level factors, including respondents’ age (positively), SES (positively), healthy lifestyle (positively), marital status (in favor of married), and gender (in favor of men) are statistically related to mental health of the respondents. The results of the fitted 2-level model show that all individual level predictors, except age, have remained significant predictors of mental health at individual level, and the social characteristics of the neighborhood positively and significantly affected the mental health at level 2 of the model. Individual level factors accounted for 13.23%, and social characteristics of the neighborhood for 33.89% of the mental health variance at individual and neighborhood levels, respectively.
