Document Type : Research Paper
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The current research was done in order to determine contribution of components of quality of veterans’ wives’ life in prediction of their children’s general health. in this purpose 300 families (wife and child) were selected by random cluster sampling method from veterans’ families of Hamedan province and quality of life questionnaire was administrated among veterans’ wives and general health questionnaire(28 items) was administrated among their children. Extremely imperfect questionnaires were included and 298 Questionnaires were analyzed. The data were analyzed with Pearson correlation coefficient and stepwise regression method. The results showed that there is a significant negative relation between components of the quality of veterans’ wives’ life and their children’s Pathological symptoms. Also the regression analysis showed that emotional role, vitality, general health and wives’ social performance subscales have important and significant role in explanation of children’s general health. Totally, it can be concluded that giving suitable instruction and services and supporting veterans’ wives, who are responsible for lookout of veterans and upbringing children, are the most important factor to promote family health and their children’s health, specially. These results are useful in planning for counseling in order to promote health. Overall it can be concluded that providing education and relatede servises and support for veteran’s spouses, who have the role of care of veterans and education of children, can be considered as the most important promoting factor for family helth and specially children health. These results are usefull in planings counsulting for helath promotion.
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