@2024 Afarand., IRAN
ISSN: 2008-2630 Iranian Journal of War & Public Health 2017;9(3):133-140
ISSN: 2008-2630 Iranian Journal of War & Public Health 2017;9(3):133-140
Epidemiology of Depression, Anxiety and Stress Symptoms in Veterans’ Wives
ARTICLE INFO
Article Type
Descriptive & Survey StudyAuthors
Seyyed Talebi S.M. (*)Rafieepour A. (1)
(*) Clinical Psychology Department, Psychology & Educational Sciences Faculty, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
(1) Psychology Department, Educational Sciences & Psychology Faculty, University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Zahedan, Iran
Correspondence
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smstalebi64@gmail.com
Article History
Received: February 6, 2017Accepted: March 14, 2017
ePublished: July 27, 2017
ABSTRACT
Aims
To the parents and adolescents, the adolescence period is full of stressful situations. The
children of the veterans undergoing mental pressures due their veteran fathers’ emotional
avoidance continuously during all their mental.
Instrument & Methods In the controlled pretest-posttest experimental study, 30 female highschool students of the veterans’ families in Isfahan were studied in the academic year 2015-16. The subjects, selected via cluster random.
Findings At the posttest stage, the mean scores of the groups were significantly different including the relationship components (dialogue), paternal engagement, and anger (p<0.05). Nevertheless, the groups were not significantly different in the positive emotion component (p>0.05).
Conclusion The positive-thinking skills trainings can improve the paternal engagement, dialogue, and anger in the female students of the veterans’ families. Such trainings can also enhance their mental health quality
Instrument & Methods In the controlled pretest-posttest experimental study, 30 female highschool students of the veterans’ families in Isfahan were studied in the academic year 2015-16. The subjects, selected via cluster random.
Findings At the posttest stage, the mean scores of the groups were significantly different including the relationship components (dialogue), paternal engagement, and anger (p<0.05). Nevertheless, the groups were not significantly different in the positive emotion component (p>0.05).
Conclusion The positive-thinking skills trainings can improve the paternal engagement, dialogue, and anger in the female students of the veterans’ families. Such trainings can also enhance their mental health quality
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[2]Buijck BI, Zuidema SU, Spruit-van Eijk M, Bor H, Gerritsen DL, Koopmans RT. Determinants of geriatric patients’ quality of life after stroke rehabilitation. Aging Ment Health. 2014;18(8):980-5.
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[4]White RF, Steele L, O'Callaghan JP, Sullivan K, Binns JH, Golomb BA, et al. Recent research on Gulf War illness and other health problems in veterans of the 1991 Gulf War: Effects of toxicant exposures during deployment. Cortex. 2016;74:449-75.
[5]Al-Turkait FA, Ohaeri JU. Post-traumatic stress disorder among wives of Kuwaiti veterans of the first Gulf War. J Anxiety Disord. 2008;22(1):18-31.
[6]Coughlan K, Parkin C. Women partners of Vietnam vets. J Psychosoc Nurs Ment Health Serv. 1987;25(10):25-7.
[7]Grieger TA, Cozza SJ, Ursano RJ, Hoge C, Martinez PE, Engel CC, et al. Posttraumatic stress disorder and depression in battle-injured soldiers. Am J Psychiatry. 2006;163(10):1777-83.
[8]Jakupcak M, Tull MT, McDermott MJ, Kaysen D, Hunt S, Simpson T. PTSD symptom clusters in relationship to alcohol misuse among Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans seeking post-deployment VA health care. Addict Behav. 2010;35(9):840-3.
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[11]Babaee E, Jain S, Cardona B, Williams A, Naghizadeh N. Health and marital satisfaction among Iranian women married to veterans and nonveterans. World Appl Sci J. 2009;6(12):1612-6.
[12]Jordan BK, Marmar CB, Fairbank JA, Schlenger WE, Kulka RA, Hough RL, et al. Damages in families of male Vietnam veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder. J Consult Clin Psychol. 1992;60(6):916-26.
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[15]Safavi M, Mahmoudi M, Akbarnatajbisheh K. Assessment of relationship quality of life and coping skills in spouses of chemical devotees with pulmonary complications due to sulfur mustard in Tehran in 2006. Daneshvar. 2010;17(87):9-18. [Persian]
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[17]Mojahed A, Kalantari M, Molavi H, Neshat Doost H, Bakhshani N, Shakiba M. Comparative investigation of mental health status of spouses of war handicaps in accordance with husband's disability. Res Med Sci Zahedan J. 2002;12(4):38-2. [Persian]
[18]Bahreinian SA, Borhani H. Mental health in a group of war veterans and their spouses in Qom. Res Med. 2003;27(4):305-12. [Persian]
[19]Parandeh A, Siratinir M, Khaghanizadeh M, Karimi Zarchi AA. The effect of training conflict resolution on quality of life’s on spouses of war veterans post traumatic stress disorder. J Mil Med. 2008;8(1):45-51. [Persian]
[20]Bahreynian A, Borhani H. Mental health in a group of war veterans and their spouses in Qom. Res Med. 2003;27(4):305-12. [Persian]
[21]Mousavi B, Soroush M, Masoumi M, Ganjparvar Z, Montazeri A. Quality of life in spouses of war related bilateral lower limb amputees. Daneshvar. 2010;17(84):11-8. [Persian]
[22]Krejcie RV, Morgan DW. Determining sample size for research activities. Educ Psychol Meas. 1970;30(3):607-10
[23]Kerry SM, Bland JM. The intracluster correlation coefficient in cluster randomisation. BMJ. 1998;316(7142):1455-60.
[24]Beck AT, Epstein N, Brown G, Steer RA. An inventory for measuring clinical anxiety: Psychometric properties. J Consult Clin Psychol. 1988;56(6):893-7.
[25]Beck AT, Ward CH, Mendelson M, Mock J, Erbaugh J. An inventory for measuring depression. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1961;4:561-71.
[26]Derogatis L. SCL 90 R administration, scoring and procedures manual II for the revised version and other instruments of the psychopathology rating scale series. Towson: Clinical Psychometric Research Inc,; 1983. pp.14-5.
[27]Bajaja B, Robinsb RW, Pandec N. Mediating role of self-esteem on the relationship between mindfulness, anxiety, and depression. Personal Individ Differ. 2016;96:127-31.
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[29]Antony M, Bieling P, Cox B, Enns M, Swinson R. Psychometric properties of the 42-item and 21-item versions of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS) in clinical groups and a community sample. Psychol Assess. 1998;10:176-81.
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[31]Asghari A, Saed F, Dibajnia P. Psychometric properties of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales-21 (DASS-21) in a non-clinical Iranian sample. Int J Psychol. 2008;2(2):82-102.
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[33]Li Y, Dai W, Zhang J. Anxiety, depression and quality of life in patients with a treated or untreated unruptured intracranial aneurysm. J Clin Neurosci. 2017;S0967-5868(16)30635-X.
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[35]Costello CG, Comrey AL. Scales of measuring anxiety and depression. J Psychol. 1967;66(2):303-13.