disappointment

Childhood as one of the fundamental stages of human life can be associated with various vulnerabilities in a way that is more evident in children with chronic diseases. Since these children cannot meet their needs, they need those around them and caregivers, especially parents to help them with their situations. Unfortunately, they sometimes face neglect, ignorance, and limited access to health care services, poverty, violence, etc., which can be a source of frustration and intolerance of disease for them.  Therefore, in order to protect the right to health of sick children, this study seeks to answer the questions of what are the causes and effects of despair in children with chronic diseases and what are the prevention strategies?

This study described and analyzed the content, verses of the Holy Quran, the narrations of the Infallibles (PBUH), the views of Imamiye jurisconsults, national standards and regulations, and international human rights documents to answer the research questions.

Grounded upon the principle “a possible part must not be abandoned by an impossible whole”, providing suitable conditions and environment for sick children as much as possible is essential.

Since various causes, such as insufficient enjoyment of a decent standard of living and disregard for spiritual values and a tendency to be negative, can affect the health and progression of children's illness, however, in the holy Shari'a of Islam, based on the principle of respect for innate dignity of man, equal treatment and observance of the best interests of the child, using hope therapy strategies in promoting spiritual health as the cornerstone of other forms of health is emphasized. Not only does it require the cooperation and assistance of the government, society, family and even sick children, but it also requires more coherent laws and regulations in line with Islamic jurisprudence.

Depression is one of the most common psychiatric disorders in the general population, which disappointment is the main cause of it, and can lead to addiction. Therefore, by identifying all affecting factors and, all conditions needed to prevent addiction can be provided.

The purpose of the present study was to determine the prevalence of depression and disappointment and their relationship with Substance addiction tendency among high school students in Divandareh city in 2018.

This is a cross-sectional study. All high school students in Divandareh city included in this study. The sample size was 370 people according to the Morgan table. The sampling method was stratified and the tools were the Beck standard Depression and disappointment Questionnaires and the substance abuse questionnaire. Exclusion criteria included disinclination to participate in the study or incorrect completion of the questionnaires. Data were analyzed by T-test, Spearman correlation and Chi-square tests.

370 students were included in this study. The prevalence of disappointment in the study was 66%, On the other hand 265 of students had low depression, 79 had moderate depression and 26 students had high levels of depression. There was a significant relationship among disappointment and GPA (P=0.012), economic status (P=0.006) and smoking history in students (P<0.001). Also depression had a significant relationship with age (P=0.009) and gender (P=0.032) as well.

Depression and disappointment play an important role in quality of life and predict addiction tending in adolescents. And that students studied need more mental health services overall.