Iranian Journal of War and Public Health

  Background : In identity crisis, teenagers get anxiety and cannot harmonize difference aspect of their character. Also presentation of a devotee or a patient in family cause some problem in harmony and social and professional identity. Teaching the ways of problem solving can decrease this disharmony and can be a solution for planning to improving and increasing mental health.

  Purpose : The pressures of war can make problem in shaping and growing of devotee child‘s identity specially in girls teenagers. So the goal of this research is studying the effectiveness of group training of problem solving to decrease identity crisis of girl teenagers (devotee‘s daughters) and as for the demographic qualities (education degree and financial income).

  Materials and methods : The method is experimental. On beginning on pre-test performed test of character identity and demographic quality on 100 of girl teenagers of devotee‘s daughters. Through people that gained score maximum, research sample (30 girls) are selected systematic randomly and divided in to 2 groups of test and control. The problem solving training was done on the test group, in 10 sections (1.5 hours). The test group decreased to 11 people and finally 22 people were analyzed. After training sessions on pro-test performed test of character identity and demographic quality on groups of test and control and analyzed results of two stages.

  Results : To analyze data, covariance was used. The results show that there is a meaningful difference between test and control group in effectiveness of problem solving education in identity crisis (p<0.0001). But the effectiveness of training according to effect of demographic qualities is not meaningful.

  Conclusion: According to result it can be concluded that problem solving training in groups had been effective in decreasing the identity crisis of girl teenagers (devotee‘s daughters) and training had same effect on persons (without involving the demographic qualities of education degree and financial income).