Iranian Journal of War and Public Health

    background : the big wars with its plentiful victims, not only don’t human life to calmness and security but also caused hospitals facing with a great deal of applicants and every day it increased the mental disorders and abnormalities.

  Purpose: according to special condition of devotees spouses, the purpose of this research is comparing the mental health of normal persons spouses and devotees spouses.

  Materials and methods: the method of research is casual-comparative. Research sample were 300 persons(150 devotee spouse and 150 normal persons spouse) and were selected by systematic random sampling. To collect data by mental health questionnaire (SCL-90-R) and demographic characteristics.

  Results : data are analyzed by Manova. The analyzing of data shown that there is a meaningful difference between mental health of devotees spouses and normal persons spouses (p<0.0001) .

  Discussion: the war, as a serious mental pressure factor have a widespread mental, social, cultural, and personal consequences and during different generation it affect the members of society. According to this research findings, we can conclude that devotees spouses in comparison with normal persons spouses have more phobia , depression, paranoid, psychotics, somatization, interpersonal sensitivity, obsessive-compulsive, anxiety, and aggression.