Mental and Behavioral Disorders and Air Pollution

Abstract

Aim: The aim of this work is to study the human mental disorders in Cyprus and their relationship to smoking and air pollution. Methods: The statistical methods were used to derive the results of this work are Student t-test in order to check the statistical significance of the human mental disorders in relation to gender, One-Way ANOVA test in order to check the statistical significance of human mental disorders in relation to age and the Pearson correlation coefficient for the relationship between these disorders of both predisposing factors of smoking and air pollution. Results: The results showed that there is no statistically significant difference in the number of human mental disorders in relation to gender, there is a statistically significant relationship between these disorders and age, and in particular they occur mainly at ages 15-44. Finally, there is a statistically significant relationship between the numbers of incidents of human mental disorders with air pollution and there is no statistically significant relationship with smoking. Conclusions: This study has shown that human mental and behavioral disorders differ in the incidence in terms of age while air pollution is a significant predisposition. Moreover, from all mental and behavioral disorders, mood affective disorders hold the first place in deaths of both men and women.