Dual Diagnosis and Quality of Life in Patients in Treatment for Opioid Dependence

Bizzarri, Jacopo V.; Rucci, Paola; Vallotta, Alessia; Girelli, Massimo; Scandolari, Anna; Zerbetto, Elisabetta; Sbrana, Alfredo; Iagher, Claudia; Dellantonio, Elio

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“…The researchers believe that physical health is influenced by psychological growth, and mental health promotion is based on the prevention and treatment of emotional stresses. Functioning in other domains of ProQOL is threatened as the level of mental health decreases (2).…”

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The Relationship Between Professional Quality of Life (ProQol) and General Health in Rajaee Trauma Hospital Staff of Shiraz, Iran

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Background: Professional quality of life is the quality that everyone feels in relation to their work. Both the positive and negative aspects of doing a job influence the professional quality of life. The majority of people spend more time at work than they do anywhere else, doing anything else. Objectives: The aim of this research was to study the relationship between professional quality of life and general health in the staffs of Rajaee trauma hospital. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study, which was conducted at Rajaee trauma hospital of Shiraz during a 12-month period (2014). Participants were selected by systematic random sampling. Results: We included 331 staff with mean age of 29.32 (5.1) years, amongst who there were 119 (36%) males and 212 (64%) females. Gender, marital status and education did not affect professional quality of life and general health, but emergency department personnel compared to other sectors had higher prevalence of depression and traumatic stress. In addition, the staffs were in good situation in terms of burnout, secondary traumatic stress, physical dysfunction, social dysfunction and severe depression and in moderate level in terms of compassion satisfaction and anxiety and sleep disorders. Conclusions:The study findings confirmed a significant relationship between professional quality of life (ProQol) and general health questionnaire (GHQ)-28 dimensions. Reducing burnout and secondary traumatic stress as well as increasing compassion satisfaction had a direct impact on decrease in mental health problems in the staff.

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The Relationship Between Professional Quality of Life (ProQol) and General Health in Rajaee Trauma Hospital Staff of Shiraz, Iran

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“…In general, the findings show that people improve their quality of life when they stop using non-prescribed opiates and undergo treatment with methadone (Padaiga, Subata, & Vanagas, 2007). However, when the results are compared between samples of people who are addicted to opiates and control samples, the scores have been systematically lower for the former and even more so with concurrent psychopathological diagnoses (Bizzarri et al, 2005).…”

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Quality of life in patients treated with methadone: The WHOQOL-BREF, psychometric study and application results

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2018

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Título: Calidad de vida en pacientes tratados con metadona: el WHO-QOL-BREF, estudio psicométrico y resultados de aplicación. Resumen: Objetivo. De entre los muchos instrumentos propuestos para medir la calidad de vida de los pacientes con adicción a opiáceos tratados con metadona el WHOQOL-BREF, propuesto por la World Health Organization, es el que más se utiliza en la actualidad. Este trabajo pretende estudiar la fiabilidad y la validez de constructo de la prueba, aplicada a una muestra amplia y representativa de pacientes, y comparar los resultados con los datos disponibles para población general en España. Se reclutó una muestra de 523 sujetos que se encontraban en tratamiento con metadona, en Madrid y Extremadura. Se efectuó un análisis factorial confirmatorio para probar la estructura teóricamente propuesta y, seguidamente, un análi-sis paralelo optimizado para conocer el número más adecuado de componentes de la prueba. Los resultados muestran que la prueba presenta sóli-dos valores de consistencia interna, tanto a nivel del ítem como de las escalas. La estructura tetradimensional teórica se confirma en la muestra con adecuados indicadores de ajuste, aunque también se obtienen serios argumentos para considerar su unidimensionalidad. Se estudió la relación estructural entre los cuatro dominios. El WHOQOL-BREF se muestra como una prueba fiable y válida para su uso en pacientes tratados con metadona, proporcionando una medida multidimensional de la calidad de vida percibida, que incluye factores sociales y ambientales ausentes en otros instrumentos, que son de enorme importancia en el tratamiento de los problemas adictivos. Palabras clave: Calidad de vida; WHOQOL-BREF; Tratamiento con metadona; Propiedades psicométricas; Análisis estructural; Adicción. Abstract:The most commonly instrument used to measure quality of life in patients with addictive behaviors is the WHOQOL-BREF, developed by the World Health Organization. No studies have been found to explore the psychometric properties in Spanish clinical samples. This paper aims to study their reliability as well as the construct validity in a representative sample of patients and comparing the results to the data available for the general population in Spain. A sample was recruited comprised of 523 subjects who were undergoing treatment with methadone in Madrid and Extremadura. A confirmatory factor analysis was completed to test the theoretically proposed structure and then an optimized-parallel analysis was done to establish the most adequate number of components. The result offers solid values for internal consistency both as concerns the items and the scales. The theoretical tetra-dimensional structure is confirmed in the sample although serious arguments are also found for considering its onedimensionality. The structural relationship between the four domains was studied. The WHOQOL-BREF proves to be a reliable and valid test for use on patients treated with methadone, providing a multi-dimensional measure of perceived quality of life that includes soci...

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“…The results of various studies indicate that the quality of life of addicts is lower than that of normal people [14]. Some studies have also shown that methadone and buprenorphine maintenance treatments have had positive effects on the life quality of the addicts [15].…”

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Evaluation of Erectile Function and Quality of Life in Patients Undergoing Methadone Maintenance Treatment

Petrov¹,

Orbetzova²,

Iliev³

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Abstract:The controversial data for erectile function and quality of life of patients undergoing methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) and lack of questionnaire-based studies, providing information about these bio-psycho-social issues, in Bulgaria motivated the investigators to examine the frequency of erectile dysfunction among patients on methadone maintenance treatment, and to identify quality of life among these subjects. For these needs cross-sectional, observational with no intervention, case-control, questionnaire-based study was performed which included participants from 18 to 40 years of age undergoing MMT for at least six months and clinically healthy people. A total of 91 patients from 5 clinical programs for MMT in Bulgaria took part in the study and 27 clinically healthy people from the same age and without a history of drug abuse, psychiatric and somatic diseases which served as a control group. All participants signed informed consent. For evaluating erectile function International Index of Erectile Function survey was used. SF 36 v.2 quality of life survey was used for assessing the quality of the participants. When comparing results of the quality of life survey in Patient and Control group significant differences were found in all of the components of the survey (p<0.05) with lower results in the Patient group. When analysing results from the IIEF survey significantly lower total scores were present for all components of the survey in the patient as compared to the group of healthy men (p<0.05).

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Dual Diagnosis and Quality of Life in Patients in Treatment for Opioid Dependence

Cited by 82 publications

References 26 publications

The Relationship Between Professional Quality of Life (ProQol) and General Health in Rajaee Trauma Hospital Staff of Shiraz, Iran

The Relationship Between Professional Quality of Life (ProQol) and General Health in Rajaee Trauma Hospital Staff of Shiraz, Iran

Quality of life in patients treated with methadone: The WHOQOL-BREF, psychometric study and application results

Evaluation of Erectile Function and Quality of Life in Patients Undergoing Methadone Maintenance Treatment

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