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Mental Health Status Among the Staff of Harm Reduction Centers

BACKGROUND: Creating a supportive environment encourages charity services to help risk groups and individuals which has magnificent impacts on reducing their harm. OBJECTIVES: According to this plan, the purpose of this study was to investigate the mental health status in the staff of harm reduction...

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Autores principales: Rezazade, Majid, Lashani, Zeynab, Ahmadi, Khodabakhsh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Kowsar 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4070187/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24971296
http://dx.doi.org/10.5812/ijhrba.12244
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description BACKGROUND: Creating a supportive environment encourages charity services to help risk groups and individuals which has magnificent impacts on reducing their harm. OBJECTIVES: According to this plan, the purpose of this study was to investigate the mental health status in the staff of harm reduction centers. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The clustered sample of this comparative study consisted of 49 staff of harm reduction centers. The study was supported by the United Nations Development Program in Tehran, Iran. The participants completed GHQ-28 and DASS-21 questionnaires along with sociologic forms and the results were evaluated by descriptive statistics indexes and independent sample t-test. RESULTS: One-hundred percent of the participants in this study showed the symptoms of psychological disorders, and approximately 16 percent suffered from moderate to high degree of anxiety, depression and stress. The level of anxiety (P ˂ 0.04) and stress (P ˂ 0.01) in the younger staff (less than 40 years) was significantly higher than older staff (more than 40 years old). In addition, somatic symptoms (P ˂ 0.05) and social withdrawal (P ˂ 0.01) were significantly higher in women than men. CONCLUSIONS: Accordingly, major mental disorders in the staff of harm reduction centers, especially women and younger people need to be considered more than before.
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spelling pubmed-40701872014-06-26 Mental Health Status Among the Staff of Harm Reduction Centers Rezazade, Majid Lashani, Zeynab Ahmadi, Khodabakhsh Int J High Risk Behav Addict Research Article BACKGROUND: Creating a supportive environment encourages charity services to help risk groups and individuals which has magnificent impacts on reducing their harm. OBJECTIVES: According to this plan, the purpose of this study was to investigate the mental health status in the staff of harm reduction centers. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The clustered sample of this comparative study consisted of 49 staff of harm reduction centers. The study was supported by the United Nations Development Program in Tehran, Iran. The participants completed GHQ-28 and DASS-21 questionnaires along with sociologic forms and the results were evaluated by descriptive statistics indexes and independent sample t-test. RESULTS: One-hundred percent of the participants in this study showed the symptoms of psychological disorders, and approximately 16 percent suffered from moderate to high degree of anxiety, depression and stress. The level of anxiety (P ˂ 0.04) and stress (P ˂ 0.01) in the younger staff (less than 40 years) was significantly higher than older staff (more than 40 years old). In addition, somatic symptoms (P ˂ 0.05) and social withdrawal (P ˂ 0.01) were significantly higher in women than men. CONCLUSIONS: Accordingly, major mental disorders in the staff of harm reduction centers, especially women and younger people need to be considered more than before. Kowsar 2014-03-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4070187/ /pubmed/24971296 http://dx.doi.org/10.5812/ijhrba.12244 Text en Copyright © 2014, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences; Published by Kowsar Corp. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4070187/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24971296
http://dx.doi.org/10.5812/ijhrba.12244
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