Harandi Tayebeh Fasihi, Taghinasab Maryam Mohammad, Nayeri Tayebeh Dehghan
Ph.D. Of Health Education and Health Promotion, Assistant Professor, Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Alborz University of Medical Sciences, Karaj, Iran.
M.Sc. of Assessment and Measurement, Allame Tabataba'i University. Tehran. Iran.
Electron Physician. 2017 Sep 25;9(9):5212-5222. doi: 10.19082/5212. eCollection 2017 Sep.
Social support is an important factor that can affect mental health. In recent decades, many studies have been done on the impact of social support on mental health. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the effect size of the relationship between social support and mental health in studies in Iran.
This meta-analysis was carried out in studies that were performed from 1996 through 2015. Databases included SID and Magiran, the comprehensive portal of human sciences, Noor specialized magazine databases, IRANDOC, Proquest, PubMed, Scopus, ERIC, Iranmedex and Google Scholar. The keywords used to search these websites included "mental health or general health," and "Iran" and "social support." In total, 64 studies had inclusion criteria meta-analysis. In order to collect data used from a meta-analysis worksheet that was made by the researcher and for data analysis software, CMA-2 was used.
The mean of effect size of the 64 studies in the fixed-effect model and random-effect model was obtained respectively as 0.356 and 0.330, which indicated the moderate effect size of social support on mental health. The studies did not have publication bias, and enjoyed a heterogeneous effect size. The target population and social support questionnaire were moderator variables, but sex, sampling method, and mental health questionnaire were not moderator variables.
Regarding relatively high effect size of the correlation between social support and mental health, it is necessary to predispose higher social support, especially for women, the elderly, patients, workers, and students.
社会支持是影响心理健康的重要因素。近几十年来，针对社会支持对心理健康的影响已开展了许多研究。本研究旨在调查伊朗相关研究中社会支持与心理健康之间关系的效应量。
本荟萃分析纳入了1996年至2015年期间开展的研究。数据库包括伊朗科学信息数据库（SID）、伊朗人文科学综合门户网站（Magiran）、努尔专业杂志数据库、伊朗国家文献中心（IRANDOC）、Proquest、PubMed、Scopus、教育资源信息中心（ERIC）、伊朗医学数据库（Iranmedex）和谷歌学术。用于搜索这些网站的关键词包括“心理健康或总体健康”、“伊朗”以及“社会支持”。共有64项研究符合荟萃分析的纳入标准。为收集数据，使用了研究者制作的荟萃分析工作表，并采用CMA - 2软件进行数据分析。
在固定效应模型和随机效应模型中，64项研究的效应量均值分别为0.356和0.330，这表明社会支持对心理健康具有中等效应量。这些研究不存在发表偏倚，且效应量具有异质性。目标人群和社会支持问卷是调节变量，但性别、抽样方法和心理健康问卷不是调节变量。
鉴于社会支持与心理健康之间的相关性具有相对较高的效应量，有必要提供更高水平的社会支持，特别是针对女性、老年人、患者、工人和学生。
