Analysis of the impact of socio-economic factors on the mental health of neuropsychiatric patients in Ardabil city

Saeidi Zaranji, Samira; Yazdani, Mohammad Hassan; Fattahzade, Ghasem

Analysis of the impact of socio-economic factors on the mental health of neuropsychiatric patients in Ardabil city

Document Type : Article extracted from thesis

Authors

Samira Saeidi Zaranji ¹ ^¶

Mohammad Hassan Yazdani ²

Ghasem Fattahzade ³

¹ PhD in Geography and Urban Planning, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili. Ardabil, Iran

² Prof. Geography and Urban Planning, Faculty of Social Sciences and University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran

³ Associate Professor of Neurology, Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, Ardabil, Iran

Abstract

Background and Objective: Studies show that mental disorders have increased in different societies in recent years. Considering the continuity of human sciences, the combined examination of economic-social factors can contain important policy recommendations. Therefore, this research aims to determine the impact of socio-economic factors on the mental health of neuropsychiatric patients in Ardabil city
Methodology: The current research is applied in terms of purpose and in terms of descriptive-analytical method. The information required in this study has been collected through field and documentary methods. The statistical population of the research corresponds to neuropsychiatric patients in Ardabil city. For data analysis, SPSS and SMART PLS3 software and one-sample t-tests and path confirmation coefficient were used in SMART PLS software.
Findings and Results: According to the research findings based on the structural model, the T-Value statistic for all variables is greater than (1.96) and the confidence level is 95. It is meaningful. and the amount of adjusted variance (AVE) for the economic variable (.331) and the social variable (.428) and there is a significant relationship between economic-social factors with the mental health of the patients, which has the most positive effect that the factors have on the mental health and The mental health of neuropsychiatric patients in Ardabil city is related to social factors and in relation to economic factors, even though this relationship is significant, the better the economic factors and welfare conditions of the patients, the better the mental health, and in patients who They have been studied from the lower strata of the society, this effect has been negative and has caused an increase in mental illness in people. Based on the findings of the research and the opinions of the respondents, the average of all items of socio-economic factors was lower than the experimental average (3), which shows the lack of satisfaction with the life and economic and social conditions of neuropsychiatric patients and these factors ultimately It has caused an increase in stress and aggression and a decrease in mental health among the citizens and a multiple increase in the number of mental and neurological patients in Ardabil city.

Keywords

neurological and mental patients

mental health

socio-economic factors

Ardabil city

Subjects

Urban Planning

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