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