G. R. VARDANYAN, Lieutenant Colonel of Medical Service, Head, Chair, Organization and Tactics of Medical Service, Military Medical Department, YSMU,

G. GALSTYAN, Colonel of Medical Service (Ret.), Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Director, Center of Military Medical Research Education, YSMU,

S. GALSTYAN, PhD in Medicine, Senior Lecturer, Chair, Emergency Medicine
and Military Toxicology, Military Medical Department, YSMU,

A. E. TADEVOSYAN, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Head, Chair, Public Health and Healthcare Organization, YSMU

SUMMARY

Professional contact with the dangerous and deleterious factors of activity inevitably affects people’s health. To name a few, the sanitary and hygienic conditions of the working environment, a lot of psychotraumatic factors of professional activity and way of life. The working environment can also directly affect the human brain, thereby increasing or decreasing his performance efficiency. Said factors can well influence on one’s psyche, and in particular cause anxiety.

In terms of the working environment affecting on a person’s health, and especially on its mental component, the military personnel whose service takes place in conditions of increased stress, in particular from that of the Air Defense Forces, who, throughout their professional activities, daily encounter many anxiety-provoking factors. These factors take hold of their overall health and life quality, and deserve special attention. The electromagnetic radiation of ultrahigh frequency of non-thermal exposure is one of them to name.

Based upon the data received in the course of the research conducted by the authors in the units of the Air Defense troops of the RA Armed Forces, the liaison between the quality of life and the anxiety level of said contingent has been analyzed. The analysis via Pearson’s linear correlation coefficient made it possible to clearly identify the following patterns: both state anxiety and trait anxiety do have a pronounced effect on the psycho-emotional and physical components of the quality of life of the military personnel of the Air Defense troops of the RA Armed Forces. Meanwhile their influence on the physical component of health is much less evident.

As claimed by the generalization and evaluation of the results of the research data analysis, specific recommendations have been worked out for the development and implementation of measures targeted at reducing the anxiety and improving the quality of life of this contingent of military personnel.