The effectiveness of life skills training on the quality of life of spouses of veterans with affective disorders
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War veterans have different physical and mental problems due to exposure to variety of traumatic events and stressors and these problems affect their quality of life and consequently affect family seriously. One of the nonmedical treatments that can improve their quality of life of veterans and family contribute to mental training. Aim of the present study was to determine the effect of life skills training on the quality of life of spouses of veterans with affective disorders. Materials and Methods
In this quasi-experimental research with pretest posttest with control group design, 50 spouses of affective disorders veterans referred to Sadr Psychiatric Hospital of Tehran, Iran in 2013 were studied. The people were randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups. The research instruments were a demographic questionnaire and WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire. The experimental group was weekly taught affective disorders and life skills training in 10 sessions in 120 minutes. The analysis of data was performed by analysis of covariance. Findings
At posttest, the experimental group showed a significant improvement in mental health, social relations health and somatic health domains. Also the experimental group did not show significant differences in environmental health domains. Conclusion
According to this research finding, we can conclude that Training of the life skills can affect the quality of life of family.Keywords:
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Persian
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Iranian Journal of War and Public Health, Volume:7 Issue: 29, 2015
Page:
197
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