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A retrospective analysis of substance use among female psychiatric patients in Saudi Arabia

OBJECTIVE: This study investigated the prevalence of substance use (SU), and its risk factors, among women attending psychiatric outpatients center in Saudi Arabia. DESIGN: A retrospective cross-sectional design. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We reviewed outpatients’ records of 200 female patients with a h...

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Autores principales: Alodhayani, Abdulaziz A., Almutairi, Khalid M., Vinluan, Jason M., Alonazi, Wadi B., Alzahrani, Hatim Gormallah, Batais, Mohammed Ali, Kaki, Fatmah Mohammed, Almigbal, Turky H., Alsaad, Saad
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9443957/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36072054
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.843785
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author Alodhayani, Abdulaziz A.
Almutairi, Khalid M.
Vinluan, Jason M.
Alonazi, Wadi B.
Alzahrani, Hatim Gormallah
Batais, Mohammed Ali
Kaki, Fatmah Mohammed
Almigbal, Turky H.
Alsaad, Saad
author_facet Alodhayani, Abdulaziz A.
Almutairi, Khalid M.
Vinluan, Jason M.
Alonazi, Wadi B.
Alzahrani, Hatim Gormallah
Batais, Mohammed Ali
Kaki, Fatmah Mohammed
Almigbal, Turky H.
Alsaad, Saad
author_sort Alodhayani, Abdulaziz A.
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description OBJECTIVE: This study investigated the prevalence of substance use (SU), and its risk factors, among women attending psychiatric outpatients center in Saudi Arabia. DESIGN: A retrospective cross-sectional design. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We reviewed outpatients’ records of 200 female patients with a history of SU from a psychiatric unit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia from December 2018 to February 2019. The researchers developed the pro forma, and 2 psychiatrists and a family medicine physician validated the form. RESULTS: The most common and widely used were psychoactive substances (58%), followed by central nervous system (CNS) depressants (22%), and finally cannabinols (9.5%). Overall, the highest substance use was the amphetamine-cannabis-nicotine (ACN) representing nearly half of the illicit items (46.6%), followed by heroine-alcohol-benzodiazepine (16.4%), and with the lowest being benzodiazepine-nicotine (1.7%). There was a significant difference between the single substance and multiple substance use in terms of age (p = 0.001), smoking behavior (p = 0.001), patients past history (p = 0.005), and age of the patient at the start of drug use (p = 0.005). CONCLUSION: Although the prevalence of substance use among women is low in Saudi Arabia, screening of substance use disorders risks and building a rehabilitation program to control drug dependence are needed.
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spelling pubmed-94439572022-09-06 A retrospective analysis of substance use among female psychiatric patients in Saudi Arabia Alodhayani, Abdulaziz A. Almutairi, Khalid M. Vinluan, Jason M. Alonazi, Wadi B. Alzahrani, Hatim Gormallah Batais, Mohammed Ali Kaki, Fatmah Mohammed Almigbal, Turky H. Alsaad, Saad Front Psychol Psychology OBJECTIVE: This study investigated the prevalence of substance use (SU), and its risk factors, among women attending psychiatric outpatients center in Saudi Arabia. DESIGN: A retrospective cross-sectional design. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We reviewed outpatients’ records of 200 female patients with a history of SU from a psychiatric unit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia from December 2018 to February 2019. The researchers developed the pro forma, and 2 psychiatrists and a family medicine physician validated the form. RESULTS: The most common and widely used were psychoactive substances (58%), followed by central nervous system (CNS) depressants (22%), and finally cannabinols (9.5%). Overall, the highest substance use was the amphetamine-cannabis-nicotine (ACN) representing nearly half of the illicit items (46.6%), followed by heroine-alcohol-benzodiazepine (16.4%), and with the lowest being benzodiazepine-nicotine (1.7%). There was a significant difference between the single substance and multiple substance use in terms of age (p = 0.001), smoking behavior (p = 0.001), patients past history (p = 0.005), and age of the patient at the start of drug use (p = 0.005). CONCLUSION: Although the prevalence of substance use among women is low in Saudi Arabia, screening of substance use disorders risks and building a rehabilitation program to control drug dependence are needed. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-08-22 /pmc/articles/PMC9443957/ /pubmed/36072054 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.843785 Text en Copyright © 2022 Alodhayani, Almutairi, Vinluan, Alonazi, Alzahrani, Batais, Kaki, Almigbal and Alsaad. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Psychology
Alodhayani, Abdulaziz A.
Almutairi, Khalid M.
Vinluan, Jason M.
Alonazi, Wadi B.
Alzahrani, Hatim Gormallah
Batais, Mohammed Ali
Kaki, Fatmah Mohammed
Almigbal, Turky H.
Alsaad, Saad
A retrospective analysis of substance use among female psychiatric patients in Saudi Arabia
title A retrospective analysis of substance use among female psychiatric patients in Saudi Arabia
title_full A retrospective analysis of substance use among female psychiatric patients in Saudi Arabia
title_fullStr A retrospective analysis of substance use among female psychiatric patients in Saudi Arabia
title_full_unstemmed A retrospective analysis of substance use among female psychiatric patients in Saudi Arabia
title_short A retrospective analysis of substance use among female psychiatric patients in Saudi Arabia
title_sort retrospective analysis of substance use among female psychiatric patients in saudi arabia
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9443957/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36072054
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.843785
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