Mental health among Iranian combat veterans with ankle-foot neuromusculoskeletal injuries

作     者：Arsia Taghva Mostafa Allami Kamyab Alizadeh Anahita Zandi Elahe Faraji Zohreh Ganjparvar 

作者机构：AJA University of Medical SciencesDisaster and Military Psychiatry Research CenterTehranIran Janbazan Medical and Engineering Research CenterTehranIran Nursing and Midwifery DepartmentTorbat Heydarieh University of Medical SciencesTorbatIran 

出 版 物：《Military Medical Research》 (军事医学研究（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2018年第5卷第2期

页      面：95-102页

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学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 10[医学] 1009[医学-特种医学] 

基　　金：financially supported by Janbazan Medical and Engineering Research Center 

主　　题：Veterans’health Ankle Foot Mental health 

摘      要：Background:Veterans with purely physical disorders,such as ankle-foot neuromusculoskeletal disorders,are often neglected in psychological assessments because mental health evaluations are usually focused on those with a psychological disturbance or with a high percentage of *** purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychological condition of veterans with ankle-foot neuromusculoskeletal ***:A cross-sectional study was performed between 2014 and 2016 on veterans with war-related ankle-foot injuries living in two provinces of *** information form for demographic data and injury-related factors was ***,the previously validated Persian version of the Symptom Checklist-90-Revision(SCL-90-R)questionnaire was used for data ***:The respondents were 215 male veterans with a mean age of 51.7±7.5 *** most common mental health problems were observed for the somatization(24.7%),obsessions-compulsions(14.4%),and anxiety(12.6%).Based on the Global Severity Index(GSI),48.6%of individuals had a possible psychiatric/psychological *** to the multivariate regression analysis,GSI scores were significantly higher among veterans who were older than 27 years at the time of injury(P=0.005),had an associated injury(P=0.002),and had a history of hospitalization within the past 12 months for reasons other than their injury(P=0.035).Conclusion:Approximately half of the combat veterans with ankle-foot neuromusculoskeletal disorders likely had psychological *** evaluation of the patterns and predicting factors of psychological conditions may inform strategic planning efforts and decision-making,which,in turn,may provide a better quality of life for *** studies that utilize longitudinal designs are needed to evaluate and compare the psychological status of different groups of veterans and other groups in the general population.