Ahmadi Khodabakhsh, Shahidi Shahriar, Nejati Vahid, Karami Gholamreza, Masoomi Mehdi
Behavioral Sciences Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Iran J Psychiatry. 2013 Mar;8(1):7-13.
Quality of life measures can provide an important source of medical information for promoting the health status of chronically ill patients. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate health related quality of life in psychiatric veterans of the Iraq- Iran war of the 1980s.
They were out patients diagnosed with various psychiatric symptoms. The present study used a cross sectional design, in which 971 psychiatric veterans were selected by Systematic-randomized sampling and evaluated using the SF36 questionnaire.
Findings revealed that veterans who suffered from one or more chronic conditions/illnesses reported significantly more bodily pain and significantly less vitality, mental and general health compared to those veterans without chronic conditions. Moreover, specific aspects of poor quality of life were more salient in specific chronic conditions/illnesses than others.
Based on these findings, chronic conditions, especially respiratory problems, can have a detrimental effect on the quality of life in psychiatric war veterans.
生活质量测量可为促进慢性病患者的健康状况提供重要的医学信息来源。本研究的目的是评估20世纪80年代两伊战争中患精神疾病退伍军人的健康相关生活质量。
他们是被诊断患有各种精神症状的门诊患者。本研究采用横断面设计,通过系统随机抽样选取971名患精神疾病退伍军人,并使用SF36问卷进行评估。
研究结果显示,与没有慢性病的退伍军人相比,患有一种或多种慢性病的退伍军人报告的身体疼痛明显更多,活力、心理和总体健康明显更少。此外,生活质量差的具体方面在特定慢性病中比在其他慢性病中更突出。
基于这些发现,慢性病,尤其是呼吸问题,可能对患精神疾病退伍军人的生活质量产生不利影响。