Cargando…
Quality of life of adolescents and young people arrive at an addiction treatment centers upon their admission, and 1, 4 and 8 months after methadone maintenance therapy
BACKGROUND: Drug abuse influences the quality of life significantly. Thus, the present study is designed to compare the quality of life of adolescents and young adults who have voluntarily referred to addiction treatment centers at different time slots of upon admission, and 1, 4, and 8 months after...
Autores principales: | , , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd
2017
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5651645/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29114562 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_297_13 |
_version_ | 1783272936262598656 |
---|---|
author | Sadeghi, Narges Davaridolatabadi, Elham Rahmani, Azam Ghodousi, Arash Ziaeirad, Marzieh |
author_facet | Sadeghi, Narges Davaridolatabadi, Elham Rahmani, Azam Ghodousi, Arash Ziaeirad, Marzieh |
author_sort | Sadeghi, Narges |
collection | PubMed |
description | BACKGROUND: Drug abuse influences the quality of life significantly. Thus, the present study is designed to compare the quality of life of adolescents and young adults who have voluntarily referred to addiction treatment centers at different time slots of upon admission, and 1, 4, and 8 months after maintenance therapy. METHODS: The present paper is a longitudinal study on 141 of adolescents and young adults who had referred to various addiction treatment centers throughout Isfahan voluntarily. The population was selected through convenience sampling method and 137 of adolescents and young adults continued the research until the end. The results were analyzed using descriptive and analytic statistics (frequency, mean, standard deviation, repeated measure test, and post-hoc test) in SPSS 17. RESULTS: Results showed that the average of quality of life total score was sequential and not the same in the 4 times slots under study. The total quality of life score upon admission was significantly different from 1, 4, and 8 months after maintenance treatment. However, quality of life at 1-month was not significantly different to that at 4 and 8 months after the treatment; quality of life at 4 months after the treatment was not significantly different to that at 8 months after. DISCUSSION: According to the present study, it can be concluded that the quality of life of adolescents and young adults referring to addiction treatment centers increases 1-month after the treatment; nevertheless, it is worth to note that the degree of quality of life increase in 4 and 8 months after the treatment is not as much as that in 1-month after the treatment. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-5651645 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2017 |
publisher | Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-56516452017-11-07 Quality of life of adolescents and young people arrive at an addiction treatment centers upon their admission, and 1, 4 and 8 months after methadone maintenance therapy Sadeghi, Narges Davaridolatabadi, Elham Rahmani, Azam Ghodousi, Arash Ziaeirad, Marzieh J Educ Health Promot Original Article BACKGROUND: Drug abuse influences the quality of life significantly. Thus, the present study is designed to compare the quality of life of adolescents and young adults who have voluntarily referred to addiction treatment centers at different time slots of upon admission, and 1, 4, and 8 months after maintenance therapy. METHODS: The present paper is a longitudinal study on 141 of adolescents and young adults who had referred to various addiction treatment centers throughout Isfahan voluntarily. The population was selected through convenience sampling method and 137 of adolescents and young adults continued the research until the end. The results were analyzed using descriptive and analytic statistics (frequency, mean, standard deviation, repeated measure test, and post-hoc test) in SPSS 17. RESULTS: Results showed that the average of quality of life total score was sequential and not the same in the 4 times slots under study. The total quality of life score upon admission was significantly different from 1, 4, and 8 months after maintenance treatment. However, quality of life at 1-month was not significantly different to that at 4 and 8 months after the treatment; quality of life at 4 months after the treatment was not significantly different to that at 8 months after. DISCUSSION: According to the present study, it can be concluded that the quality of life of adolescents and young adults referring to addiction treatment centers increases 1-month after the treatment; nevertheless, it is worth to note that the degree of quality of life increase in 4 and 8 months after the treatment is not as much as that in 1-month after the treatment. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017-10-04 /pmc/articles/PMC5651645/ /pubmed/29114562 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_297_13 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Journal of Education and Health Promotion http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Sadeghi, Narges Davaridolatabadi, Elham Rahmani, Azam Ghodousi, Arash Ziaeirad, Marzieh Quality of life of adolescents and young people arrive at an addiction treatment centers upon their admission, and 1, 4 and 8 months after methadone maintenance therapy |
title | Quality of life of adolescents and young people arrive at an addiction treatment centers upon their admission, and 1, 4 and 8 months after methadone maintenance therapy |
title_full | Quality of life of adolescents and young people arrive at an addiction treatment centers upon their admission, and 1, 4 and 8 months after methadone maintenance therapy |
title_fullStr | Quality of life of adolescents and young people arrive at an addiction treatment centers upon their admission, and 1, 4 and 8 months after methadone maintenance therapy |
title_full_unstemmed | Quality of life of adolescents and young people arrive at an addiction treatment centers upon their admission, and 1, 4 and 8 months after methadone maintenance therapy |
title_short | Quality of life of adolescents and young people arrive at an addiction treatment centers upon their admission, and 1, 4 and 8 months after methadone maintenance therapy |
title_sort | quality of life of adolescents and young people arrive at an addiction treatment centers upon their admission, and 1, 4 and 8 months after methadone maintenance therapy |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5651645/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29114562 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_297_13 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT sadeghinarges qualityoflifeofadolescentsandyoungpeoplearriveatanaddictiontreatmentcentersupontheiradmissionand14and8monthsaftermethadonemaintenancetherapy AT davaridolatabadielham qualityoflifeofadolescentsandyoungpeoplearriveatanaddictiontreatmentcentersupontheiradmissionand14and8monthsaftermethadonemaintenancetherapy AT rahmaniazam qualityoflifeofadolescentsandyoungpeoplearriveatanaddictiontreatmentcentersupontheiradmissionand14and8monthsaftermethadonemaintenancetherapy AT ghodousiarash qualityoflifeofadolescentsandyoungpeoplearriveatanaddictiontreatmentcentersupontheiradmissionand14and8monthsaftermethadonemaintenancetherapy AT ziaeiradmarzieh qualityoflifeofadolescentsandyoungpeoplearriveatanaddictiontreatmentcentersupontheiradmissionand14and8monthsaftermethadonemaintenancetherapy |