@Article{IJMHP.2020.010901,
AUTHOR = {Batool Mousavi, Marziye Asgari, Mohammadreza Soroush, Reza Amini, Ali Montazeri},
TITLE = {Impact of War Related Mental Disorders on Partners},
JOURNAL = {International Journal of Mental Health Promotion},
VOLUME = {22},
YEAR = {2020},
NUMBER = {1},
PAGES = {11--17},
URL = {http://www.techscience.com/IJMHP/v22n1/38802},
ISSN = {2049-8543},
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.},
DOI = {10.32604/IJMHP.2020.010901}
}