Iranian Journal of War and Public Health

Introduction: Medical disability rating Commission is the only way through Iranian Veterans and War
Victims’ Organization and allocation of all facilities is related to its permission. In this study we were to assess
veterans’ satisfaction from this process.
Materials and Methods: All the veterans who had attended for the commission session were asked to fulfill a
questionnaire covering different aspects of the evaluation process and all the data were collected and analyzed
by using SPSS 15 software
Results: Most of the veterans were from Geylan, Khorasan and East Azarbayejan provinces 9.8%, 8.2% and
7.4%, respectively. Their mean age was 39.9±6.6 (Range: 12-83 y/o). At the time of study, 44.3% of the
veterans were unemployed and mean disability percent of them was 25.8±8.6 (Range: 5-70%) and five percent
of the subjects were injured after the ceasefire in 1987. According to their opinion, 87.8% of the subjects
reported that local officials had very good or excellent greetings and 87.7% reported that they had been visited
according to the schedule. 8.4% reported that they had to wait a long time to be visited and 6.4% were
unsatisfied from physical environment of the programs. Seventy two percent of the subjects were satisfied from
attention and consideration of the specialists.
Discussion: As Iranian Veterans and War Victims’ Organization is dedicated to afford veterans’ needs, the
officials should use all their authority to enhance their abilities to cope with the society.