Entering to university is a very sensitive period in effective and active youngsters’ lives in every country and it is usually accompanied by great variations in social relations, expectations and role takings. These variations are also accompanied by worries and stress and influence the students’ psychological health. Based on this, the present article aims at the survey of Zahedan medical sciences university students’ psychological health status. In the present descriptive-analytical research, 567 university students from Zahedan medical sciences university were selected based on a random-classification method and they were included in the study. Information gathering tool was a questionnaire containing personal characteristics and a 28-question psychological health test as well (general health questionnaire, GHQ-28) which was completed according to a self-static method. The gathered information was analyzed by making use of SPSS 18. The results obtained in the present study indicated that totally 46.4% of the students were not psychologically healthy (based on the cutting-point of higher than 23 in GHQ-28). Also, there was a significant discrepancy between the students’ psychological health scores based on being native and nonnative and also the interest rate in the field of study (P<0.05).This was while there was no significant difference between students’ psychological health based on variables including gender, marital status and employment. According to the results obtained by the present study performing psychological evaluations upon entrance to the university and during the education course and offering specialized psychological health services are recommended in order for the students’ psychological health to be enhanced.
