Relationship between religious orientation and mental health in family

Aims: mental health problems are among the important increasing contributors to the families and societies' burden. the goal of mental health is to prevent infection and to reduce the incidence, and to prevent from mental illnesses and disorders' complications. the main purpose of this paper was to investigate the relationship between the religious orientation and families' mental health. methods: this quantitative research was conducted using survey technique on the families that both man and woman were alive and lived together, residing in hesarak suburb, down karaj, in 2009. 386 families were selected based on systematic random sampling method. to measure the mental health, the standardized questionnaire of the world health organization was used. results: there was a significant relationship between families' mental health and age, sex, income, education level, employment status, family size and introvert and extrovert religious orientation. based on the results of the multivariable regression, variables such as introvert religious orientation, income, extrovert religious orientation and education explained about 63% of the changes in the dependent variable. conclusion: based on the path analysis model, introvert religious orientation has the highest effect on mental health among the studied variables.