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Impact of War Related Mental Disorders on Partners
Batool Mousavi1,*, Marziye Asgari2, Mohammadreza Soroush2, Reza Amini3, Ali Montazeri4
1 Prevention Department Janbazan Medical and Engineering Research Center (JMERC), Tehran, 198594-6563, Iran
2 Janbazan Medical and Engineering Research Center (JMERC), Tehran, 198594-6563, Iran
3 Department of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Michigan-Flint. The University of Michigan-Flint303 E., Michigan, 48109, USA
4 Mental Health Research Group, Health Metrics Research Center, Iranian Institute for Health Sciences Research, Tehran, 131579-5795, Iran
* Corresponding Authors: Batool Mousavi. Email: ; Mohammadreza Soroush. Email:
International Journal of Mental Health Promotion 2020, 22(1), 11-17. https://doi.org/10.32604/IJMHP.2020.010901
Abstract
Mental disorders tend to be highly prevalent in war survivors. This
paper examined the long-term impact of psychiatric disorders of war survivors on
the level of health vulnerability among their female spouses. Interviews were
conducted with a nationally representative sample of 653 of the partners of male
war survivors with disabilities. The war survivors’ database information used to
determine the presence of psychiatric disorders. Then the partners of survivors
with (N = 333) and without (N = 320) psychological disorders were assessed via
the health-related quality of life (HRQOL-SF36) questionnaire. The frequency of
depression and PTSD in war survivors suffer from psychological disorders were
50.7% and 43.9% respectively. Morbidity significantly was two times higher in
partners of war survivors with psychiatric disorders (P < 0.001). Partners of war
survivors suffered from psychiatric disorders had significantly lower scores in all
8 subscales of HRQOL-SF-36 (P < 0.001). Morbidity was the most important
predictor for both poor physical (OR = 3.06, 95% CI = 1.44 to 6.48, P = 0.004)
and mental health (OR = 2.37, 95% CI = 1.12 to 4.99, P = 0.02) in the partners of
war survivors who suffered from psychiatric disorders. These findings stress that
war survivors suffering from psychiatric disorders have significant more negative
impact on their partners’ morbidity and quality of life.
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APA Style
Mousavi, B., Asgari, M., Soroush, M., Amini, R., Montazeri, A. (2020). Impact of war related mental disorders on partners. International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, 22(1), 11-17. https://doi.org/10.32604/IJMHP.2020.010901
Vancouver Style
Mousavi B, Asgari M, Soroush M, Amini R, Montazeri A. Impact of war related mental disorders on partners. Int J Ment Health Promot. 2020;22(1):11-17 https://doi.org/10.32604/IJMHP.2020.010901
IEEE Style
B. Mousavi, M. Asgari, M. Soroush, R. Amini, and A. Montazeri "Impact of War Related Mental Disorders on Partners," Int. J. Ment. Health Promot., vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 11-17. 2020. https://doi.org/10.32604/IJMHP.2020.010901