title: The Relationship of Parental Mental Health and Dietary Pattern With Adolescent Mental Health.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Today, ensuring people's health and well-being has become a concern for societies. Health status results from an interaction of an individuals' various psychological, social, and physical aspects.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This study aims to investigate the relationship of parental mental health and dietary pattern with adolescent mental health.
  
  
  METHODS
  In this study, 250 high school students in Shiraz were selected using random cluster sampling. The samples were analyzed using the Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ) and the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28).
  
  
  RESULTS
  According to the findings, parental mental health explains 22% of the variance in children's mental health, so that in simultaneous regression, physical dimensions, anxiety, social functioning, and depression predicted 13%, 24%, 11%, and 24% of the variance of criterion variables, respectively. No significant relationship was observed between dietary pattern and adolescent mental health dimensions. There was a significant negative relationship only between depression and vegetable intake. Moreover, fruit (r = 0.15, P < 0.05) and vegetable (r = 0.16, P < 0.05) intake had a significant relationship with parental mental health dimensions.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Parents' mental health and their psychological characteristics can be related to children's mental health and affect their dietary intake patterns.
authors.affiliation: Zahedan Health Promotion Research Center, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, IR Iran.
authors.forename: Mohsen
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mesgarani
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Psychology, Iranshahr University of Medical Sciences, Iranshahr, IR Iran.
authors.forename: Mohsen
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hosseinbor
authors.affiliation: Childern and Adolescents Health Center, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, IR Iran.
authors.forename: Shahla
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shafiee
authors.affiliation: Islamic Azad University, Zahedan Branch, Zahedan, IR Iran.
authors.forename: Roghayeh
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sarkoubi
keywords: Adolescent; Dietary Pattern; Mental Health