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

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 injury. The purpose of...

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Autores principales: Taghva, Arsia, Allami, Mostafa, Alizadeh, Kamyab, Zandi, Anahita, Faraji, Elahe, Ganjparvar, Zohreh
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5613370/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29502520
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40779-017-0138-1
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author Taghva, Arsia
Allami, Mostafa
Alizadeh, Kamyab
Zandi, Anahita
Faraji, Elahe
Ganjparvar, Zohreh
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Alizadeh, Kamyab
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description 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 injury. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychological condition of veterans with ankle-foot neuromusculoskeletal disorders. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was performed between 2014 and 2016 on veterans with war-related ankle-foot injuries living in two provinces of Iran. An information form for demographic data and injury-related factors was used. Additionally, the previously validated Persian version of the Symptom Checklist-90-Revision (SCL-90-R) questionnaire was used for data collection. RESULTS: The respondents were 215 male veterans with a mean age of 51.7 ± 7.5 years. The 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 illness. According 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). CONCLUSIONS: Approximately half of the combat veterans with ankle-foot neuromusculoskeletal disorders likely had psychological problems. The 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 veterans. Further 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.
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spelling pubmed-56133702017-10-03 Mental health among Iranian combat veterans with ankle-foot neuromusculoskeletal injuries Taghva, Arsia Allami, Mostafa Alizadeh, Kamyab Zandi, Anahita Faraji, Elahe Ganjparvar, Zohreh Mil Med Res Research 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 injury. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychological condition of veterans with ankle-foot neuromusculoskeletal disorders. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was performed between 2014 and 2016 on veterans with war-related ankle-foot injuries living in two provinces of Iran. An information form for demographic data and injury-related factors was used. Additionally, the previously validated Persian version of the Symptom Checklist-90-Revision (SCL-90-R) questionnaire was used for data collection. RESULTS: The respondents were 215 male veterans with a mean age of 51.7 ± 7.5 years. The 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 illness. According 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). CONCLUSIONS: Approximately half of the combat veterans with ankle-foot neuromusculoskeletal disorders likely had psychological problems. The 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 veterans. Further 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. BioMed Central 2017-09-26 /pmc/articles/PMC5613370/ /pubmed/29502520 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40779-017-0138-1 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Taghva, Arsia
Allami, Mostafa
Alizadeh, Kamyab
Zandi, Anahita
Faraji, Elahe
Ganjparvar, Zohreh
Mental health among Iranian combat veterans with ankle-foot neuromusculoskeletal injuries
title Mental health among Iranian combat veterans with ankle-foot neuromusculoskeletal injuries
title_full Mental health among Iranian combat veterans with ankle-foot neuromusculoskeletal injuries
title_fullStr Mental health among Iranian combat veterans with ankle-foot neuromusculoskeletal injuries
title_full_unstemmed Mental health among Iranian combat veterans with ankle-foot neuromusculoskeletal injuries
title_short Mental health among Iranian combat veterans with ankle-foot neuromusculoskeletal injuries
title_sort mental health among iranian combat veterans with ankle-foot neuromusculoskeletal injuries
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5613370/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29502520
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40779-017-0138-1
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