Effect of mental diathesis training on the recruits' psychological health / 解放军医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the effect of mental diathesis training on recruits' psychological health.Methods A total of 200 recruits were divided into intervention group and control group with 100 recruits in each group.Those in intervention group were trained by Mental Diathesis Training for 6 weeks,and the recruits in control group were not.SCL-90 and Coping styles scale were employed to evaluate the mental health before and after training.Results Except phobia and psychoticism,other factor-scores of SCL-90 of the recruits in intervention gsoup were decreased significantly after the training.Except somatization,no significant difference was found in other factor-scores of SCL-90 of the recruits in control group after the training.Except somatization,phobia and psychoticism,other factor-scores of SCL-90 of recruits in intervention group were significantly higher than that of the recruits in control group(P