Firooz Esmaeilzadeh - Assistant Professor of Health Economics Department of Public Health, School of Public Health, Maragheh University of Medical Sciences, Maragheh, Iran
Mojtaba Sepandi - Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Faculty of Health, Baqiyatallah University of medical sciences, Tehran, Iran

Background and Objective: Depression is one of the main problems and disrupting daily life activities in women. Due to the important role of women in society and the effect of depression on this group activity the aims of the current study was to investigate of the identification effective factors on women's depression in Khuzestan province.Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, ۸۹۹ women who referred to health centers in Ahwaz were selected by cluster sampling method. For analysis purpose, multivariate and univariate linear regression was used. All analysis performed by SPSS version ۱۹ with regarding α: ۰.۰۵ for the significant level.Results: in case of effective factors on depression score, number of Education Years, Competence score, Relatedness score, Autonomy score, Presence of Meaning in Life score,Search for Meaning in Life score had the significant effect on depression score (p<۰.۰۰۱).Conclusion: Education level, marital status, education level, Social Competence, relatedness, Autonomy; Presence of meaning in life, Search for meaning in life and Depression are effective factors on depression so focusing on this factors can have the very important role in prevention programs.

depression, women, Khuzestan