title: Investigating happiness and its related factors in married women referred to health centers of shahroud city.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Happiness is one of the most important factors affecting women's mental health. Several factors contribute to happiness in different societies.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this study was to investigate the level of happiness in married women and its related factors.
  
  
  METHODS
  This was a cross-sectional study with stratified sampling proportional to different age groups of married women in selected health centers (based on socioeconomic status). Subjects were 379 married women. The Oxford Happiness Inventory (scale: 0-87) was used to measure happiness. The Enrich Marital Satisfaction Inventory including 47 questions (scale: 47-235) and demographic information questionnaires were also used. Descriptive statistics, correlation, T-test, One-way ANOVA and Regression were used to analyze data.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The mean of happiness was 45.11 ± 14.40. Marital satisfaction was 164.68 ± 28.33 and 64% of the participants had a relative marital satisfaction. Univariate analysis of happiness showed significant effects of husband and wife education, husband job, economic status, stress in past six months, marital satisfaction and having social activates, but was not statistically significant for other factors (P < 0.05). Adjusting for the confounding effect of other variables, multiple linear regressions showed significant association of happiness with marital satisfaction, economic status and social activity.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Regarding lower level of happiness of married women in Shahroud comparing to some other studies in Iran and abroad, leisure time programs, training life skills especially stress management skills, increasing marital satisfaction and improving economic status should be considered.
authors.affiliation: Student Research Committee, Department of Reproductive Health, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, IR Iran.
authors.forename: Zahra
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Sooky
authors.affiliation: Department of Reproductive Health, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, IR Iran.
authors.forename: Afsaneh
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Keramat
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, Nursing and Midwifery Faculty, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, IR Iran.
authors.forename: Khadijeh
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sharifi
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology, Medical Faculty, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, IR Iran.
authors.forename: Mohsen
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dehghani
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, Nursing and Midwifery Faculty, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, IR Iran.
authors.forename: Zahra
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Tagharrobi
authors.affiliation: Department of Midwifery, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, IR Iran.
authors.forename: Mahboubeh
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Taebi
authors.affiliation: Trauma Nursing Research Center, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, IR Iran.
authors.forename: Zohreh
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Sadat
keywords: Happiness; Satisfaction; Women