TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - Quality of life in caregivers of severely disabled war survivors
JO  - Rehabilitation nursing
A1  - Mousavi, Batool
A1  - Seyed Hoseini Davarani, Seyed Hosein
A1  - Soroush, Mohammadreza
A1  - Jamali, Arsia
A1  - Khateri, Shahriar
A1  - Talebi, Morteza
A1  - Montazeri, Ali
SP  - 139
EP  - 147
VL  - 40
IS  - 3
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0278-4807
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rnj.159
ID  - ref1
ER  -