PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Pouya Farokhnezhad Afshar AU - M Foroughan AU - F Pirooz AU - M Ajri TI - Social well-being of Iranian retired men of the armed forces and their wives AID - 10.1136/jramc-2019-001164 DP - 2020 Nov 01 TA - BMJ Military Health PG - e38--e42 VI - 166 IP - E 4099 - http://militaryhealth.bmj.com/content/166/E/e38.short 4100 - http://militaryhealth.bmj.com/content/166/E/e38.full SO - BMJ Mil Health2020 Nov 01; 166 AB - Background Social well-being is a major component of health, which was somehow neglected until the last few decades. The aim of this study was to determine the state of social well-being of Iranian retired men of the armed forces and their wives in the metropolis of Tehran.Methods This is a cross-sectional study which was conducted in Tehran, capital of Iran, in 2016. Three hundred retired men of the armed forces and their wives were selected by random sampling. We used the Social Well-Being Scale to collect data. We assessed its internal consistency and validity with Cronbach’s alpha and exploratory factor analysis before using it. We used SPSS V.24 software to analyse the data via χ2, Pearson’s correlation, t-test and analysis of variance.Results The mean age was 66.39±6.98 years; 60% were male. The findings revealed that retired men of the armed forces and their wives report a relatively modest degree of well-being. Social well-being of the participants was significantly related to their marital status (p=0.03), education (p=0.03), employment status (p<0.01), housing status (p<0.01), financial status (p<0.01) and health status (p<0.01).Conclusion The social well-being of retired men of the armed forces and their wives was moderate and was not different from each other, and it was related to housing ownership, employment, self-rated socioeconomic condition, education, good health and married status.