Analyses On The Mental Health Status And Its Influencing Factors Among The Officers And Soldiers In The Frontier Guards

Mental health (mental health), is to maintain and improve people's mental state by the positive and useful education and measures in order to meet the current social environment and development. Soldiers as a special groups, the through psychological problems and serious harm of them attracts more and more people's attention. The study of soldier's health problems has gradually been paying attention too. A study of U.S.A study indicated that psychological barriers is the primary reason causing premature retirement of the military men, and it is the second reason for female soldiers'retirement. Some scholars conducted a retrospective study of the past decade China's military status of mental health research, they found that the mental health of our troops is low. There are a lot of factors affect the soldiers'mental health, such as age, military service, ethnicity, education level, marital status. Border (frontier guards) are major enforcement force that deployed in the border of China's coastal areas, entry and exit ports and territorial waters, they resident remote and inaccessible areas, lack of information and communication with the outside world, cultural and recreational life is monotonous, and the boring duty, high alert, the mental health of the soldier will effect by the adverse. But there was few domestic research literature of the border guards.ObjectiveThe study conducts a text about the mental health and the evaluation factors of soldiers in order to investigat officers and soldiers as well as social and psychological situation of family relationships, expectations proposed to increase the mental health of the public security border defense officers and soldiers an effective way to improve psychological education and counseling service to effectively address the psychological problems of men, so that officers learn self-regulation to ease the psychological pressure to minimize the cases due to psychological problems caused by the accident, in order to promote the construction of border work and the forces of sustainable development.MethodsTest the questionnaire used coping questionnaire, border officers and men to adapt to the questionnaire, psychological symptom checklist (SCL-90), personality disorder questionnaire. Of a border officers in preparing the 2010-2011 test, were 1601 valid questionnaires, with the cursor after the reader reads the data, using SPSS13.0 statistical software for data collation and analysis of measurement data with M (QL,QU) that the central tendency, count data used in forming the ratio (%) that the use ofχ2 test for univariate analysis, the use of multi-factor non-conditional Logistic regression model for multivariate analysis.Results1.Way to deal with the situation: The test is an effective way to deal with 1279 people, of which 276 are positive type, accounting for 21.6% of the effective number of the negative type is only 24, accounting for 1.9% of the number of effective, mixed up, 898 people, mediocre type 81, is a mixed response sort of way> active-type> mediocre type> negative type.2.Ability to adapt to the situation forces: The test is 1534 were effective, well-adapted 1445 officers and men, accounting for 94.2% of the effective number of 13 officers and men to adapt to difficult, 76 men with mild maladjustment.3.Psychological symptoms self-assessment results: 1601 border officers, 11 officers and men of poor mental health, there are 117 officers and men in sub-health state. The detection rate of mental unhealthy 8%.4.Personality disorder evaluation results: A total of ten types of personality disorder, there is a type of personality disorder, 88 officers and men, accounting for 5.5%, two of 22, accounting for 1.4%, 3 to 4 of 16 people, accounting for 1.0%, four people appeared more than five types of personality disorder, accounting for 0.2%.5.Compared with 16 to 20 years,21 to 25 years old soldiers were more poor SCL-90 results. Compared with Compulsory, Officers and lieutenants were better SCL-90 results. Compared with Team, the unit category with the public security checkpoint were better SCL-90 results. Negative type of coping-style and positive-type response as compared to the results of psychological symptoms of poor self-assessment, military officers and men less able to adapt and meet the officers and men of good self-assessment compared with the results of psychological symptoms than difference.Conclusions1.Border guards were mixed and active coping style than the mediocre type of coping style and negative ratio of more than the length of military service affected the choice of type of coping style.2.5.8% of the border officers had poor ability to adapt to adverse forces.3.Most border officers personality disorder exists a type of disorder.4.8% of poor mental health status of border officers, 21~25 years old, rank lower levels, poorly ability to adapt to adverse forces, negative coping style may be the risk factors.