JOURNAL OF POLICE MEDICINE
Year:2016 | Volume:5 | Issue:4 (SUPPLEMENT)|Papers Count:9

Background: In order to achieve development and progress in various aspects of life, human should have the ability to deal with difficult situations. Thus, life skills and applying them to achieve growth and perfection can resolve many problems, frustrations, and abnormalities, and bring a joyful, progressive, useful and constructive life, instead.Materials and Methods: The present study examines the effect of life skills training on mental health and locus of control in Hamadan Police Special Uni Staff. This study aimed to investigate the effect of life skills training on mental health and locus of control used pre- and post-test design with a control group. For this purpose, the highest 30 scores of 140 Staff of Hamadan Police Special Unit from pre-test (General Health Questionnaire and Inventory control source), were selected, and were randomly divided into two experimental and control groups, each group consisted in 15 people.Results: The results showed that life skills training effected significantly on people’s mental health and locus of control. According to the final assessment of the course, the majority of participants considered life skills useful and necessary for all people. Scale of A, B and D and the total score were significant at 99% confidence level and scale C was not significant.Conclusion: The findings suggest that life skills among police personnel be trained and strengthened.

Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of assertiveness training in reducing the addiction potential of eleventh grade male students in the city of Hamadan.Materials and Methods: This was an experimental study with pretest-posttest design. From Boy's High Schools of Hamadan participated in this study, one school was selected by the cluster sampling method and 40 people were randomly selected and were replaced in a test group and a control group (n=20 subjects, per group). Assertiveness training for 8 sessions were conducted in the first group while the control group was on the waiting list.Results: Data were analyzed using analysis of covariance. Descriptive statistics showed that scores of the experimental group had decreased, compared to the control group and post-test showed that the value of F for the preparation of active addiction was 1076.7 and for passive readiness to addiction was 2608.4 which is significant in the level of (P<.001).Conclusion: The analysis of covariance showed assertiveness training could significantly decrease the scores of experimental group compared to the control group in both dimensions of the addiction potential.

Background: Today, promotion of drugs is one of the adolescents' problems. Because of easy access and consumption in synthetic drugs, the tendency to use them has increased among adolescents. The main purpose of the study is to examine the mediator role of the police in relationship between family support and social support among adolescent addicts living in Hormozgan (province(.Materials and Methods: This descriptive study is of correlation and path analysis type, population consisted of all adolescents between 15-20 years old who were addicted to one of drugs, then 345 available individuals were selected from addicted adolescents as a sample, data were collected through questionnaires including Parenting Styles by Bamrind (1991), Social Support by Zimet, et al. (1998) and 10 developed (self-designed) questions to understand the supportive role of police. The data were analyzed by using descriptive inferential Kolmogorov-Smirnov and path analysis tests as well as SPSS.20 software and AMOS.Results: The coefficient of path analysis showed reverse and indirect effect of social support on careless support of family, direct effect of social support on the police support, reverse and indirect effect of the police support on careless and despotic support of family, indirect effect of the police support on strongly support of family, and finally direct effect of the social support on strongly support of family. Conclusion: Social support is impressive for appropriate styles of family support and improving the police support of family.

Background: The aim of this study was to compare symptoms of mental disorders of high-risk events drivers in the general population of Tehran.Materials and Methods: The study population consisted of drivers who had committed a violation. The method of causal-comparative was applied for a number of 400 male violating drivers and 398 ordinary citizens of Tehran using the MCMI-III questionnaire. Data were analyzed using the software SPSS 19.Results: The results showed that there were significant differences between the two groups in the scales of depression (3.12-T), histrionic personality disorder (11.9-T), antisocial personality disorder (43.96-T), negativistic personality disorder (13.58-T), anxiety disorder (13.58-T), manic disorders (4.88-T), drugs (13.58-T) and alcohol (10.92-T) of which high-risk events drivers demonstrated more symptoms. However, in other scales including schizoid, avoidant, dependent, narcissistic, borderline, other-abuse, obsessive, selfdestructive, schizotypal, and paranoid personality disorders, and somatoform, dysthymia, post-traumatic stress, thinking, major depression, and delusional disorders, there was no significant difference between the two groups.Conclusion: The findings suggest that during the preliminary examinations for drivers to prevent and reduce accidents by high-risk drivers comprehensive mental health screening procedures be performed.

Background: Cognitive emotion regulation strategies have different effects on individuals’ mental health (especially soldiery). Emotions management, which consists of internal and external processes, controls, evaluates and changes a person's emotional response in order to achieve their goals. Mental health is a state of mind associated with a number of internal and external variables covering from the absence of disease up to the sense of satisfaction and enjoyment of life. This study aimed to predict the mental health of border staff.Materials and Methods: This is a descriptive and correlational research. The sample population consisted of 125 randomly selected border cadre personnel of Sistan-Baluchistan in 2015 tested by mental health questionnaire (GHQ-28) and cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire (GERQ). Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics including regression and Pearson correlation test via SPSS Software.Results: The results showed that there is a positive significant correlation between strategies of other-blame and catastrophizing with physical impairment, anxiety, social dysfunction, depression and mental health, and there is a negative significant relationship between positive thinking strategies and acceptance with physical impairment, anxiety, social dysfunction, depression and mental health. Also, regression analysis results showed that strategies of otherblame, catastrophizing and positive thinking were able to predict and explain 33.2 percent of changes related to mental health.Conclusion: The results suggest that cognitive emotion regulation strategies can predict and explain mental health changes in the border cadre.

Background: This study aimed to identify factors affecting job motivation and to prioritize them using Analytical Hierarchy Process in a military center.Materials and Methods: This study was a cross-sectional analysis that was conducted in 2015 in a military center. The sample consisted of 100 people. Data collection tools included two questionnaires that were designed based on Herzberg's theory of motivation. The method used for prioritization was Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP).Results: Results showed that the components of job security and decent wages with importance coefficients of 0.29 and 0.20 are respectively the first and second priorities and the components of communication and environmental policy with importance coefficient of 0.02 are in the last level Conclusion: In this study, it was concluded that the organization can provide a secure platform for achieving organizational goals and better performance of staff by providing job security and attention to economic and livelihood problems as well as staff performance based payment.

Background: The aim of this study was to screen for mental disorders in draftees newly arrived in Tehran metropolitan during April 2014 - Oct 2015.Materials and Methods: This study was an applied descriptive research in which MMPI-2 test was used for screening. The sampling method was census, the sample number was 9875 and data analysis was done using descriptive statistics, frequency tables and nonparametric inferential statistical test.Results: The overall prevalence of disorders among draftees was 6.49. In ordinary draftees, disorders prevalence was 8.00 and it was 4.72 percent in noncommissioned ones. The disorder of depression was more common in both groups. However, psychiatric disorders prevalence in scales of depression, psychopathic, paranoia and mania in ordinary draftees was significantly more than noncommissioned ones. But there was no significant difference in scales of hypochondria, hysteria, obsession and Schizophrenia.Conclusion: The results show that despite two stages of psychological assessment at the time of sending draftees to serve in the Police Training Centers, 6.49% of draftees suffer from psychological disorders who have not been identified in these two steps. Deputy police command of Tehran's Behdad idea of screening draftees on arrival at the province has been very useful and has led to positive results. Concerning deferment, it also seems that its impressions and programs have not yet been fully realized.

Background: The phenomenon of girls running away from home has been growing in recent years and its social, cultural and health consequences have made specialists, policy makers and the general population pay attention to that. In this research, the effect of counseling services on reduction of girls runaway has been studied.Materials and Methods: In this descriptive study, the population consisted of all runaway girls referred to the Police Headquarters Counseling Center of Ardabil among which 60 ones were selected via convenience sampling method, (20 healthy runaway girls, 20 non -runaway girls and 20 injured- runaway girls). The instruments used were a self-designed questionnaire and social support scales. Results: Results showed that there are significant differences between injured runaway girls and the two other groups of girls in the amount of family and social support subscales.Conclusion: The exclusion of family and friends and ultimately losing social support, lead runaway girls more to degeneration and social separation.

Background: Classification and use of produced aggregate information in health systems and especially in mental and behavioral disorders plays an important role in presenting correct statistics in public health and increasing the health level of the society. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the importance of use of mental and behavioral disorders classification with the approach of international classification of diseases.Materials and Methods: This study is a review study that was done in 2016. Related information was acquired through searching in Pub-Med and Mag Iran data bases, google and yahoo search engine, World Health Organization website and survey in librarian resources and then the collected data were reported based on the study goals. Results: ICD published by WHO, classified the mental and behavioral disorders in chapter 5 of it. Due to the importance of classification and use of related mental and behavioral information, WHO decided to create and publish a special classification related to it called Clinical Descriptions and Diagnostic Guidelines (CDDG).Conclusion: Concerning the importance of mental and behavioral related information, the advanced countries in psychology and psychiatry such as the USA has started to design and produce DSM. With regard to the benefits of classification and accurate statistics in different aspects such as treatments, statistics, researches, legal issues etc., it is recommended to use the classification of DSM-5.