Batool Mousavi1,*, Marziye Asgari2, Mohammadreza Soroush2, Reza Amini3, Ali Montazeri4
International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.22, No.1, pp. 11-17, 2020, DOI: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… More >
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