@article{ref1,
title="Quality of life in caregivers of severely disabled war survivors",
journal="Rehabilitation nursing",
year="2014",
author="Mousavi, Batool and Seyed Hoseini Davarani, Seyed Hosein and Soroush, Mohammadreza and Jamali, Arsia and Khateri, Shahriar and Talebi, Morteza and Montazeri, Ali",
volume="40",
number="3",
pages="139-147",
abstract="PURPOSE: To evaluate quality of life (QOL) of caregivers of severely disabled war survivors and identify variables threatening caregivers' QOL. <br><br>METHODS: A cross-sectional study was performed on 532 caregivers of Iran-Iraq war related injured survivors by using Persian version of 36-item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36). <br><br>FINDINGS: Caregivers had lower QOL compared to the Iranian female population (p < .001). Caregivers of amputees had better SF-36 scores compared to caregivers of two groups of chemical warfare survivors (p ranging from.01 to <.001). Caregiving to chemical warfare and being married at the time of trauma were the independent predictors of poor QOL in both the physical component summary (OR = 5.08, 95% CI = 3.35-7.7; OR = 0.57, 95% CI = 0.37-0.89) and the mental component summary (OR = 4.12, 95% CI = 2.68-6.32; OR = 0.63, 95% CI = 0.40-0.98). <br><br>CONCLUSION AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE: Caregivers of war veterans suffer from poor QOL. Chemical warfare agents contribute to more persistent poor QOL in caregivers than the injuries caused by conventional weapons.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0278-4807",
doi="10.1002/rnj.159",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rnj.159"
}