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Background: Health and nutrition are important aspects in the analysis of households' multidimensional poverty. The present research investigated poverty in Tehran's households through a cohort approach. In this regard, households' financial participation about health costs and food intake calories were analyzed
Methods: Households' data of costs - income survey were then collected. Health and nutrition poverty trend was investigated through generational approach, index of poverty "Foster, Greer, Turbak", and in the period of 1984-2014 by dividing Tehrany families into eight various age groups. Excell and Stata11 were applied to process and calculate the indices
Results: During the study years, the highest level of health poverty [29%] in 1999 was in age range of 21-26 and the highest level of nutrition poverty in 1984 [65%] was in age range of 42-46. There has been an ascending trend of health and nutrition poverty at the end of the Fourth Development Plan [2009] up to 2013 for all age groups
Conclusion: Generally, rate and severity of health and nutrition poverty had many fluctuations among different age groups of Tehrani households' heads. This rate has raised during recent years which indicates lack of stable and coherent social policies to reduce households' exposures with catastrophic health care costs and funding of the food aid needs
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Background: Military service is a crucial period in the lives of young people and during this period soldier facing with multiple psychosocial problems
Objectives: The present study aimed to explore structural analysis of the relationships between depression, drug abuse, social support and the risk of suicidal ideation among Military Medical University soldiers in Iran
Methods: In the present correlational research, a sample of 176 soldiers, from three units, was selected using randomly stratified sampling. Data were collected through the Social Support Questionnaire [SSQ], the Beck Depression Inventory-ll [BDI-II], the Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation [BSS] and the Possibility of Drug Abuse Scale [IDAS]
Structural equation modeling was used to test the fit of the model, identify direct and indirect effects of the psychosocial correlates. Data were analyzed using the SPSS and AMOS software [Verson22]
Results: out of the whole subjects, 28.4% had suicidal ideation and 65.3% had degrees of depression [mild to severe]. A significant reverse relationship was observed between social support and suicidal ideation [p<0.05]
The strongest relationship was detected between drug abuse and suicidal ideation. The final structural model indicated that 74% of the variance in suicidal ideation was explained by the three examined variables of depression, social support and drug abuse
Conclusions: The overall results showed that the risk of suicidal ideation, depression and drug abuse are relatively significant in Military Medical University soldiers requiring taking serious actions by the authorities and other relevant organizations in order to improve the psychosocial health status of these soldiers