Effects of psychological support on physiological and mental adaptation in recruits

    LI Quanª²Chao, LUO Gongª²Lin, CHEN Xingª²Wei, YANG Yang, LAN Xueª²Wen, JIN Riª²Fei

    Institute of Military Medicine, Jointª²service Department, Guangzhou Military Area Command, Guangzhou 510507, China

    ¡¾Abstract¡¿ AIM: To explore the effects of psychological support on mental adaptation in recruits. METHODS: The psychological support, composed of psychological education, psychological training, mental counseling and working environment improvement, was applied to 200 recruits of the study group, and another 200 recruits was used control group. The effect was assessed with PSET (Psychological Stress Selfª²evaluation Test), SAS (Selfª²rating Anxiety Scale), SDS (Selfª²rating Depression Scale) and the rate of military training injury. RESULTS: With psychological support, the neurobehavioral functions composed of emotional status, attention/response speed, manual dexterity, perceptualª²motor speed, visual perception/memory improved significantly in the study group compared with those in the control group, and the study group had lower score in PSET, SAS and SDS than control group, and also had lower rate of military training injury. CONCLUSION: The practical and systematic psychological support has significant effect on the mental adaptation of recruits. ......