en Health Promotion Health Promotion پژوهشي Original Article <div> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;"><b><span new="" times=""><font color="#000000">Background:</font></span></b><font color="#000000"> </font><span new="" times=""><font color="#000000">This study aimed to compare mental health, life satisfaction and happiness of non-addicted men&#39;s wives and addicted men&#39;s wives in Zanjan.</font></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;"><font color="#000000"><b><span new="" times="">Methods: </span></b><span new="" times="">This study was a comparative study of ex post facto. Two groups including 192 wives of addicted men and 192 non-addicted men&#39;s wives were selected. The case Group was selected purposefully and from the patients admitted to addiction treatment centers. The people in the control group were randomly selected from the same areas. The groups were assimilated with respect to the inclusion criteria.</span></font><font color="#000000"> </font><span new="" times=""><font color="#000000">Data were collected by using GHQ-28, Satisfaction with Life Scale by Diener and Oxford Happiness Questionnaire. To analyze the data, considering that data follow a normal distribution and by observing the test precondition, MANOVA and independent two-sample t-test were used in SPSS 22.</font></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;"><b><span new="" times=""><font color="#000000">Results:</font></span></b><font color="#000000"> </font><font color="#000000"><span new="" times="">There was a significant difference between general health and its subscales in the two groups (<em>P</em>>0.05). There was a significant difference between both groups in terms of life satisfaction (<em>P</em><0.05). Finally, there was a significant difference between happiness and its subscales in the case group and control group (<em>P</em><0.05).<br> <b>Conclusion: </b></span><span new="" times="">The Case group had a situation lower than the control group in terms of general health, life satisfaction and happiness.</span></font></span></span></p> </div> General health, Life satisfaction, Happiness, Addiction 125 135 http://jhehp.zums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-95-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Parisa Golbazi parisa.golbazi@gmail.com 10031947532846009429 10031947532846009429 No Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Zanjan, Iran. Masoud Hejazi masoud.hejaziaz@gmail.com 10031947532846009430 10031947532846009430 Yes Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Zanjan, Iran. Korosh Amini korosh@zums.ac.ir 10031947532846009431 10031947532846009431 No Department of Health Research Center, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.