The relationship between exercise and gender in mental health of staff of Red Crescent society of Tehran

Introduction: The results of the latest research on relief workers have shown that these individuals due to occupational exposure to stressful situations do not enjoy good mental health than other people. Besides sports, activities always emphasized the researchers as an effective strategy for improving mental health has. Due to this, the aim of this study was compare the mental health status of male and female relief workers of Red Crescent and determination the role of exercise in mental health of these groups. Methods: In this descriptive and causal-comparative study, by using available sampling ۴ groups (each group had ۲۵ patients) were selected and studied such as: ۱) trained male relief workers; ۲) trained female relief workers; ۳) untrained male relief workers; and ۴) untrained female relief workers. All groups filled the self-administrated questionnaire of individual information and SCL-۹۰ psychological disorder questionnaire. Data analyzed by one-way ANOVA test and tukey post-hoc test. Findings: The results show that a relatively high percentage of relief workers (۳۱%) have a mental disorders core above the cut-off points. In addition, trained and untrained men have higher average mental health than their counterpart groups in the opposite sex; however, this difference was not statistically significant. Finally, a one-way ANOVA results showed that mental health of trained women and men is significantly higher than their untrained group sex. Conclusion: According to the results, it is suggested that officials of the relative organizations should consider sport programs and competitions due to its positive effects on relief workers’ mental health as a useful and easy solution in order to reduce negative side effects of job stressful conditions.

کلیدواژه ها:

mental health ، relief worker ، athlete ، non-athlete ، سلامت روانی ، امدادگر ، ورزشکار ، غیرورزشکار