{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,11]],"date-time":"2026-05-11T14:31:12Z","timestamp":1778509872743,"version":"3.51.4"},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"Knowledge E DMCC","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["IJPS"],"abstract":"<jats:p>Objective: Positive mental health is a distinct dimension of population health. Despite the validation of the Persian Mental Health Continuum\u2013Short Form (MHC-SF), population-based estimates for adult municipal surveillance in Iran are limited. To describe MHC-SF score distributions, internal consistency, and demographic gradients among adults in Mashhad.\r\nMethod: A population-based cross-sectional survey (May 2024\u2013March 2025) used stratified cluster sampling across five health districts (50 clusters; Kish-grid household selection). Adults aged \u2265 18 years completed the 14-item Persian MHC-SF indexing emotional well-being (EWB), social well-being (SWB), and psychological well-being (PWB).\r\nResults: Among 2,066 adults (57.6% women), the overall mean (SD; median) MHC-SF score was 61.55 (13.21; 63), with domain scores of 28.99 (6.19; 30) for PWB, 19.01 (5.63; 19) for SWB, and 13.54 (4.11; 14) for EWB. Men scored slightly higher than women on the total scale, EWB, and PWB (all P &lt; 0.001; small effect sizes), while the SWB difference was not statistically significant (p = 0.075). Age showed weak positive associations with total, EWB, and SWB scores (\u03c1 = 0.060\u20130.069; P \u2264 0.006), but not PWB (\u03c1 = 0.018; P = 0.408). Item-level contrasts suggested higher male endorsement of agency\/meaning indicators and higher female endorsement of benevolence\/collective optimism; both sexes reported high levels of warm, trusting relationships. In a multivariable linear regression adjusting for age and sex simultaneously, demographic predictors accounted for &lt; 1% of outcome variance, with male sex independently associated with higher total, EWB, and PWB scores, and age independently associated with slightly higher total, EWB, and SWB scores.\r\nConclusion: In this representative urban population-based study, positive mental health was moderately high; PWB ranked highest, while SWB lagged. Demographic gradients were small: men slightly exceeded women, and older adults reported marginally higher EWB and SWB. For surveillance, the MHC-SF total score appears suitable as a summary indicator, while the SWB profile may help identify community-level levers (e.g., social capital and trust) to strengthen social connectedness in Mashhad, Iran.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.18502\/ijps.v21i2.21224","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,15]],"date-time":"2026-04-15T09:51:27Z","timestamp":1776246687000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Population Well-Being in Mashhad: Mental Health Distribution and Demographic Gradients"],"prefix":"10.18502","author":[{"given":"Sadegh","family":"Jafarzadeh","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Arash","family":"Ziaee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mohammad","family":"Khajedaluee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mahdi","family":"Gholian-Aval","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"7770","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,13]]},"container-title":["Iranian Journal of Psychiatry"],"original-title":[],"link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/publish.kne-publishing.com\/index.php\/IJPS\/article\/download\/21224\/19714","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/publish.kne-publishing.com\/index.php\/IJPS\/article\/download\/21224\/19714","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,11]],"date-time":"2026-05-11T13:47:40Z","timestamp":1778507260000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/publish.kne-publishing.com\/index.php\/IJPS\/article\/view\/21224"},"secondary":[{"URL":"https:\/\/ijps.tums.ac.ir\/index.php\/ijps\/article\/view\/4498","label":"UNIVERSITY"}]},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,13]]},"references-count":0,"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.18502\/ijps.v21i2.21224","relation":{},"ISSN":["1735-4587","2008-2215"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1735-4587","type":"electronic"},{"value":"2008-2215","type":"print"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,13]]}}}