Razi Journal of Medical Sciences

Background & Aims: Mental health is one of the key issues in the international arena that has been able to play an important role in the formation and emergence of functional issues (1). Improving mental health indicators has been considered as one of the key indicators in country evaluations and extensive efforts have been made in this regard (3). From the past to the present, human beings have attached great importance to their physical and mental health and are always striving to employ a healthy body and a great soul and spirit in order to establish a successful and refreshing life for themselves (4). Mental health promotion can play an important and decisive role in various areas, including organizational issues. Improving mental health status as a serious concern can overshadow the process of organizational activities (10). Various variables can be effective in improving mental health (11).
Managers are currently facing various challenges. Environmental changes, including increasing efforts to compete for market share by competing organizations and increasing sustainability, the emergence of interest in the environment and the formation of various groups in this field, accelerating the process of environmental instability, the effects of information technology and The movement of environmental forces in different and unfamiliar directions, including political, economic, social, cultural, legal, etc., causes pressures that, while affecting managers as stress, etc., can have major effects on success and It also has the failure of organizations. Apart from the role of managers in the success and failure of organizations, manpower is also a central element in the success and failure of organizations. At the same time, researches and studies show that the policies adopted by human resource planning also affect organizational performance (17). Lack of attention to the issue of organizational sustainability has led to the lack of sufficient use of this variable to improve the organizational situation. So that today there is no necessary concern to use the capacities of this variable, especially in Islamic Azad universities in northern Iran. The research gap in this field as well as the inefficiency of the organizational system to improve the organizational sustainability has caused the research gap to improve the organizational sustainability in Islamic Azad universities in the north of the country has not been created. This issue has caused the present study to be designed and implemented with the aim of investigating the effect of organizational sustainability on mental health in Islamic Azad universities in the north of the country.
Methods: For the present descriptive, survey and applied research, which was conducted in the field, among the staff of the Islamic Azad University in the north of the country (13255 people) using Morgan table, 374 were selected by cluster random sampling as a sample. Were. Then, a 16-item questionnaire of organizational sustainability with two mental dimensions (questions 1-8) and behavioral (9-16) based on a 5-point Likert scale and a 28-item mental health questionnaire with a subscale of physical symptoms (1-7), anxiety and Insomnia (8-14), social dysfunction (15-21) and depression (28-22) were distributed among them based on a 5-point Likert scale, and finally 361 questionnaires were analyzed using the structural equation analysis method. And analyzed. The whole process of research data analysis was performed in SPSS software version 20 and PLs version 2.
Results: The results of the present study showed that organizational sustainability has a significant effect on mental health in Islamic Azad universities in the north of the country. In other words, improving the organizational sustainability can provide the basis for mental health.
Conclusion: Promoting mental health can create desirable capacities in organizational areas. Mental health as one of the key issues in the individual sphere plays an important role in mental and behavioral functioning of individuals. The World Health Organization defines mental health as: the ability to communicate harmoniously and harmoniously with others, to change and modify the individual and social environment, and to resolve personal conflicts and inclinations in a just, rational, and appropriate manner. Knowing the characteristics of healthy people and people with mental disorders is helpful for diagnosis. The importance of mental health has led to its importance in improving various policies. Improving and promoting mental health causes the mental and behavioral condition of people to be constantly overshadowed; In other words, investing in improving mental health can lead to improving the mental and behavioral status of individuals (27).
Attention to health as an important and key issue has always been considered by advanced societies. Improving the level of health as one of the indicators of the development of countries has an important role in the process of improving the health, cultural and social status of individuals. This issue has led to the attention to various aspects of health and efforts to improve it as important and key goals. Improving health can have positive effects in other areas of humanity and affect all levels of society. Among the broad field of health, mental health has always been discussed as one of the most important and key pillars of health. Organizational sustainability by improving the mental system of employees can lead to the creation of an ideal organizational environment for them, which in turn provides the basis for improving their mental health. In other words, organizational sustainability can improve mental health among individuals by improving mental conditions (25).