Mental health of Iranian amputees veterans living on the Mazandaran province

Aims:Amputation is the most common motor disabilities. Physical, behavioral and mental disorders after that are the most serious problems of amputee veterans.
This was a cross-sectional study. We assessed themental health of Iranian amputees veterans living on the southern coast of the Caspian Sea. In this study, evaluated mental health status of participant with self-administered demographic questionnaire and SCL-90-R questionnaire.
From the 575 participants, 256 (44.52%) The range of age was 20-70 years and mean age was 46.44±2.6. 65.5% completed the questionnaire. All of them were men, 94.9% (n=1864) were married and 78.8% had graduate diploma and under diploma. 69.1% of participants had GSI index more than 0.7% and thus as a possible psychopath, 16.4% between 0.4% to 0.7% and suspected possible psychopath and the end, in 14.5% less than 0.4 and therefore were considered as potential healthy.
It seems that the majority of veterans have not acceptable counseling psychology, which has been reduces their mental health.