Abstract

Behavioral-psychological disorder is a clinically significant condition that is associated with changes in thinking, mood, emotion, or any specific behavior and is accompanied by personal distress and or life dysfunction. The present study was conducted to investigate mental health status of high school students in Izeh, a, Iran, in the academic year of 2019-2020 in a cross-sectional survey design. A total of 362 students were selected using multistage random sampling from among male and female high school students in Iezh, the Province of Khuzestan. The participants completed the Symptoms Checklist for Mental Disorders (SCL 90-R). The data were analyzed using statistics measurements frequency and frequency percent, and factorial analysis of variance and SPSS-22 software. The results indicated that 22.7% [n=82] of the total sample, 32.6% [n=59] of the girls, 12.7% [n=23] of the boys; 17.5% [n=21] of tenth graders, 24.8% [n=30] of eleventh graders, 25.6% [n=31] of twelfth graders, 20.4% [n = 28] of students in humanities , 25.5% [n=48] of students in natural sciences, and 16.2% [n=37] of students in mathematics and physics were suspected to have mental disorders. Also, significant differences in mental disorders were observed between girls and boys, and among tenth, eleventh, and twelfth graders. According to the reports obtained, the mental health authorities of the Office of Education and the relevant community authorities should take appropriate actions to promote the mental health and well-being of adolescent male and female students.