Mental health among Iranian combat veterans with ankle-foot neuromusculoskeletal injuries

Arsia Taghva; Mostafa Allami; Kamyab Alizadeh; Anahita Zandi; Elahe Faraji; Zohreh Ganjparvar

doi:10.1186/s40779-017-0138-1

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Mental health among Iranian combat veterans with ankle-foot neuromusculoskeletal injuries

RESEARCH | Updated：2026-03-12

- Mental health among Iranian combat veterans with ankle-foot neuromusculoskeletal injuries
- Military Medical Research Vol. 5, Issue 2, Pages: 95-102(2018)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.AJA University of Medical Sciences, Disaster and Military Psychiatry Research Center, Tehran, Iran
  2.Janbazan Medical and Engineering Research Center, Tehran, Iran
  3.Nursing and Midwifery Department, Torbat Heydarieh University of Medical Sciences, Torbat, Iran
- Author bio：
  
  *: faraji_1383@yahoo.com
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- DOI：10.1186/s40779-017-0138-1
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- Published：2018-06
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Taghv et al.: Mental health among Iranian combat veterans with ankle-foot neuromusculoskeletal injuries. Mil Med Res, 2017, 4: 30
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Taghv et al.: Mental health among Iranian combat veterans with ankle-foot neuromusculoskeletal injuries. Mil Med Res, 2017, 4: 30 DOI： 10.1186/s40779-017-0138-1.

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Abstract

Background:

Veterans with purely physical disorders

such as ankle-foot neuromusculoskeletal disorders

are often neglected in psychological assessments because mental health evaluations are usually focused on those with a psychological disturbance or with a high percentage of injury. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychological condition of veterans with ankle-foot neuromusculoskeletal disorders.

Methods:

A cross-sectional study was performed between 2014 and 2016 on veterans with war-related ankle-foot injuries living in two provinces of Iran. An information form for demographic data and injury-related factors was used. Additionally

the previously validated Persian version of the Symptom Checklist-90-Revision (SCL-90-R) questionnaire was used for data collection.

Results:

The respondents were 215 male veterans with a mean age of 51.7±7.5 years. The most common mental health problems were observed for the somatization (24.7%)

obsessions-compulsions (14.4%)

and anxiety (12.6%). Based on the Global Severity Index (GSI)

48.6% of individuals had a possible psychiatric/psychological illness. According to the multivariate regression analysis

GSI scores were significantly higher among veterans who were older than 27 years at the time of injury (

=0.005)

had an associated injury (

=0.002)

and had a history of hospitalization within the past 12 months for reasons other than their injury (

=0.035).

Conclusion:

Approximately half of the combat veterans with ankle-foot neuromusculoskeletal disorders likely had psychological problems. The evaluation of the patterns and predicting factors of psychological conditions may inform strategic planning efforts and decision-making

which

in turn

may provide a better quality of life for veterans. Further studies that utilize longitudinal designs are needed to evaluate and compare the psychological status of different groups of veterans and other groups in the general population.

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