Relationship between mental health and mental quality of training logistic soldiers in field

Abstract

Objective To explore the mental health and its relationship with mental quality of training logistic soldiers in field. Methods Symptom Checklist 90(SCL-90) and Mental Quality Questionnaire for armymen(MQQA) were employed to evaluate the mental health and mental quality of 230 training logistic soldiers in field, and then an analysis was carried out on the characteristics of the training logistic soldiers on mental health and its relationship with mental quality. Results ①The psychological problem's ratio of training soldiers was 21.3%, and the ratio of the male(22.8%) was significantly higher than that of the female(15.2%) (χ2=8.64, P=0.00). In SCL-90, the scores of somatization (1.46±0.63), hostility (1.49±0.75) and psychotism (1.43±0.68) were all higher in training soldiers than the army norm. The factor scores of somatization (1.49±0.66) and psychotism(1.46±0.72) in the male training soldiers were considerably higher than those of the male soldiers norm (P 0. 05). ②There existed a significantly negative correlation between the factor scores of the mental quality and that of SCL-90 (P<0.05, P<0.01). ③The SCL-90 scores existed clear differences in obsessive-compulsive, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, hostility and paranoid ideation among different mental quality groups(P<0.05). Conclusion The mental health of training logistic soldiers is poor.The mental health is closely related to the mental quality. Therefore, the mental health education and mental quality training should be strengthened to the training logistic soldiers. Key words: Field training; Logistic soldiers; Mental health; Mental quality; Related research