Measuring the Effectiveness of Resilience Training on the Mental Health and Quality of Life of the Handicapped Veteran's Wives

This study is aimed at examining the effect of group resilience training on the mental health and quality of life of the handicapped veteran's wives living in an organizational settlement in Tehran.
This is an applied research work based on the quasi-experimental design with pre- and post-tests and a control group. The sample included the wives of 60 handicapped veterans living in an organizational settlement in Tehran. The sample ultimately came to 50 subjects as 10 participants decided not to participate in the study. The 50 participants were randomly put into the two experimental or control groups of equal size. The subjects’ resilience was measured using the 25-item questionnaire of Connor and Davidson (2003), their mental health was measured using the 28-item questionnaire of Goldberg (1972), and their quality of life was measured using the 36-item quality of life index of Weir and Sherborne (1992). Using descriptive statistics methods including mean and standard deviation, the obtained data were described and based on the covariance analysis as an inferential statistics test, the hypotheses were tested.
The results of the covariance analysis, at the significance level of p Based on these findings, it can be said that the problems and hardships of life and living and interacting with the handicapped veterans having physical and mental problems disturb the mental tranquility of the veterans’ wives and lower their mental health as they are affected by stress, anxiety and depression. Therefore, resilience boosts mental health by modifying these factors through reducing mental and emotional problems. This process results in increasing life satisfaction.