en Epidemiologic Studies Epidemiologic Studies مقاله پژوهشی Original Research Article <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><strong new="" roman="" style="font-family: " times=""><span style="color:#ffffff;"><span style="background-color:#16a085;">Background and Objective:</span></span>&nbsp;</strong><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="line-height:107%">This study was conducted to shed light on the hidden relationships, trends, and patterns of the teenagers&rsquo; mental health dataset based on data mining techniques.</span></span><br> <strong new="" roman="" style="font-family: " times=""><span style="color:#ffffff;"><span style="background-color:#16a085;">Materials and Methods:</span></span>&nbsp;</strong><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="line-height:107%">The proposed method has four parts as follows: data preprocessing, data cleaning, target class selection, and extracting rules. The classes included inappropriate, moderate, and acceptable. The rules were extracted separately by implementing ID3, CHAID, and rule induction on the Caspian 5 dataset.</span></span><br> <strong new="" roman="" style="font-family: " times=""><span style="color:#ffffff;"><span style="background-color:#16a085;">Results:</span></span></strong>&nbsp;<span style="line-height:107%"><span style="line-height:107%">It was found that the teenagers who rarely drink carbonated soda and have dinner seven days a week, have acceptable status of mental health. Besides, watching TV and playing computer games for 4 hours or more per week, drinking tea and packaged juices, eating cakes, cookies, pastries, biscuits, and chocolate weekly&nbsp; could lead to inappropriate status of&nbsp; mental health.</span></span><br> <strong new="" roman="" style="font-family: " times=""><span style="color:#ffffff;"><span style="background-color:#16a085;">Conclusion:</span></span>&nbsp;</strong><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="line-height:107%">An attempt to improve health especially in youth is one of the important concerns of every country.&nbsp; The rules express the negative impact of soda on mental health. Besides, it can be concluded that there is a direct relationship between having breakfast and mental health.</span></span></span></span></p> Mental Health, Data Mining, Hidden Pattern, Iterative Dichotomiser 3(ID3) 281 288 http://journal.zums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-5744-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Maryam Jahanbakhsh jahanbakhsh.him@gmail.com 5200319475328460073513 5200319475328460073513 No Health Information Technology Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran Asal Aghadavodian Jolfaee asal.aj.2019@gmail.com 5200319475328460073514 5200319475328460073514 No Dept. of Management and Health Information Technology, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran Roya Kelishadi msattarimng.mui@gmail.com 5200319475328460073515 5200319475328460073515 No Child Growth and Development Research Center, Research Institute for Primordial Prevention of Non-communicable Disease, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran Mohammad Sattari msattarimng.mui@gmail.com 5200319475328460073516 5200319475328460073516 Yes Health Information Technology Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran