The Mental Health Status of Librarians in Shahid Sadoughi University of MedicalSciences

Human resource is an organizational capital and its mental health is one of themost important dimensions. The mental health has a significant effect onperformance of staffs. The current research aimed to examine the mental healthand its dimensions in librarians of Shahid Sadoughi university in 2016. This is adescriptive-analytical study with correlational design among librarians workingin libraries of Shahid Sadoughi university. Goldberg & Hiller general healthquestionnaire was used to evaluate general health of librarians. Data were thenanalyzed using descriptive statistics, independent T test, variance analysis, andPearson correlation coefficient through SPSS software version 19. Resultsindicated that the mean score of librarians general health was 22.8±10.38 whichshows that participants were healthy. Furthermore, marital status was associatedwith health and its components so that married individuals were less healthy.Depression rate of librarians was low but most of them suffered from physicalproblems, anxiety, sleep disorders, and social conflicts. Therefore, librarians authorities should consider such problems and develop strategic plans for them.

Keywords:

Mental health , Librarians , CHQ28