‏ کیفیت زندگی جانبازان شیمیایی 15 سال پس از مواجهه با گاز خردل‏

abstract introduction: the city of sardasht, located in north western part of iran was the ‎target of a chemical invasion in 1988.many studies have shown the veteran’s ‎adverse condition of physical and medical health which can affect the quality of ‎their lives .so far, few studies have been devoted to the iranian chemical ‎veteran’s quality of life .this research was studying the chemical veteran’s ‎quality of life 15 years after exposure mustard gas.‎ methods: in a cross-sectional observation 163 chemical veterans of sardasht ‎were randomly selected among all the veterans of sardasht .their quality of life ‎were studied via wisconsin’s quality of life questionnaire. demographic and the ‎infection datas of the veterans were listed in order to analyse statistically, tables ‎of frequency and relative frequency were used .for analytical understanding of ‎the datas several tests such as k square test were used. p<0.05 was considered to ‎have a certain meaning.‎ results: 138 of them (85%) were males. the mean age group of the study cases ‎was 40±14/61.138 people (85%) described their quality of lives as undesirable ‎and 20 people(15%) described theirs as desirable. the most common non-‎professional activities of the veterans were respectively watching tv, going to ‎mosques, walking and listening to radio, and the most deciding factor in their ‎quality of lives was physical health (83%) in terms of importance of ‎socialization, the highest attention was reportedly paid to family relations (75%) ‎and in terms of the frequency of positive and negative emotions, the highest ‎frequency was about satisfaction with life and loneliness, in respect.‎ discussion: regards to the fact that about 85% of the study cases described ‎their life quality as undesirable and on the other hand human’s quality of life is ‎considered as a frame work for providing service as well as recourse allocation ‎which is closely related to individual’s mental-social situation, therefore in ‎order for establishment and preservation of mental-social balance in veteran’s ‎lives, the necessity of continuing services and more resource allocations for this ‎community is evident even years after the occurrence of the chemical ‎bombardment.‎