A cross sectional comparative study of quality of life of treatments seekers at de-addiction centre in central India using WHO BREF scale

Abstract

Background: Substance use disorders (SUDs) are a major global health problem affecting quality of life of human being. It has major impact on physical, psychological, social and environmental aspect of life. The aim is to assess Quality of Life (QoL) of persons seeking treatment at de-addiction centre by comparing it with those not seeking treatment, using WHOQOL BREF scale. Methods: A cross sectional comparative study is done on 250 persons admitted and seeking treatment at de-addiction centre during August 2014 to December 2015. A five-point scale rated WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire was used to assess quality of life. Results: Majority of study participants (85.60%) rated their quality of life as poor when compared to comparison group who rated their quality of life as good (52.80%). Majority of study participants (82.80%) were dissatisfied with their health. It was observed that the mean score of the physical, psychological, social and environmental domain in the study group was significantly lower in study group when compared to comparison group (p<0.001). Conclusions: Substance abuse had detrimental effect on the physical, social, psychological and environmental domain affecting their overall health and quality of life.

A study of socio-demographic profile and pattern of drug use among substance abusers attending mind care de-addiction center in Ahmedabad

“…11,12 This could be due to increased prevalence among males or males are frequently coming for treatment. Married group was having the highest percentage (47%) which is also in concordance with other study Pandey et al, Kapse et al 13,14 This may be explained by the fact that number of persons using drugs are increasing with each decade. As the grown up of age, they felt pressure and stress of getting marriage, security of carrier and future stabilities leads to more exposure to consumption of such kind of substances.…”

Sociodemographic profile and pattern of substance abusers: A retrospective study to unveil the public health problem of Punjab

“…Single individuals have to face the stresses of life without the long-term support provided by marriage, which makes them to drug abuse. Majority (47%) of the patients in a study by Prajapati et al [ 8 ] were married whereas Pandey et al [ 9 ] and Kapse et al [ 10 ] reported maximum patients in their study were single. Most of the patients in our study were self-employed (47.2%) followed by unemployed (26.5%), which is in line with the findings of Pande et al [ 9 ] This might be explained by the fact that the individuals engaged in business are at high risk of drug abuse as their occupation demands more socializing as compared to other employments.…”