European Journal of Experimental Biology Open Access

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Abstract

Ratings of stressful life events and their relationship with symptoms of mental disorders in the general population of Ardabil

Reza Kazemi, Sonia Didehroshani and Azimeh Haggi Topraglo

Psychological stress, as one of the causative factors of mental and physical disorder, are considered to be important health issues. The aim of this research was rating of life stressor Events and their Relationship with mental disorders in Ardabil General population. In these descriptive, cross – sectional study, all the 600 people of 18th to 50th were cluster random sampling data were gathered by using the life events inventory and SCL-90-R questionnaires.. And data analysis, frequency distribution, percentage, mean, and correlation and t test was used. Results showed that the death of a spouse is dedicated to creating more stress and then the following events, respectively, among the first ten events were stressful. Child death, collide candidate, marital infidelity, death of family members except his wife and children (parents, brothers, sisters), a close family member's addiction, physical or mental disability of a family member, professional failure, heavy financial problems, (heavy debt, bankruptcy), leaving their house followed by his wife conflict. Between psychiatric symptoms and stress with physical complaints (r =0/35), obsession-compulsion (r =0/37), Interpersonal Sensitivity (r =0/38), depression (r =0/33), anxiety (r =0/35) and hostility (r =0/31), Phobia (r =0/23), paranoia (r =0/31) and psychosis (r =0/35) There is a positive relation. The identification and assessment of stress in different groups to identify vulnerable groups is essential.