Prevalence of Alcohol Dependence and
Abuse in a General Hospital;
Sensitivity and Specificity of MAST

Okay, Tuncer; Şengül, Cem; Açıkgöz, Çağlar; Ozan, Gönül; Dılbaz, Nesrin

doi:10.29333/ejgm/82787

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“…Hedlund and Vieweg (1984) report that this tool has been used in various populations. Although some authors suggest the use of a cutoff point of 5 (e.g., Okay, Sengül, Açikgöz, Ozan, & Dilbaz, 2010), this has also been associated with false positives (e.g., Martin, Liepman, & Young, 1990). Other studies suggest the use of a cutoff point of 8 (Horn, Paccaud, Niquille, Koehn, Magnenat, & Yersin, 1992); this threshold was chosen in this study because of its previous use with an Indigenous population in Quebec (Philippe-Labbé, 2006).…”

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Impact of residential schooling and of child abuse on substance use problem in Indigenous Peoples

Ross

Dion

Cantinotti

et al. 2015

Addictive Behaviors

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Residential schools were the institutions, in operation from the 19th century to the late 20th century, which Indigenous children in Canada were forced to attend. The literature shows that many young people who attended these institutions were victims of neglect and abuse.Negative psychological effects resulting from child abuse have been amply documented.However, very few studies on this subject have been carried out among Canada's Indigenous peoples. The objective of this cross-sectional study is to evaluate, for an Indigenous population in (n = 121) reported having experienced child sexual abuse, and 34.1% (n = 117) reported having experienced child physical abuse. Results of the exact logistic regression analyses indicated that residential school attendance was linked to alcohol problems, while child abuse was related to drug use problems. The results of this study highlight the importance of considering the consequences of historical traumas related to residential schools to better understand the current situation of Indigenous Peoples in Canada.

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Impact of residential schooling and of child abuse on substance use problem in Indigenous Peoples

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Dion

Cantinotti

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Addictive Behaviors

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“…However, the number of women in this study was more than twice that of men. In line with this study, several surveys in Iran and the world documented this pattern of gender differences among different study populations over the years 2,6,18,20 . This represents a significant prevalence of substance abuse, alcohol consumption, and cigarette smoking among the studied men.…”

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“…In other words, accurate assessment of the prevalence of substance and alcohol abuse and dependence (due to legal and religious restrictions and social stigmatization) is not possible in Iran, because respondents may not always be honest or accurate about their substance use. On the other hand, substance and alcohol abuse have acute and chronic physical harms to the organs of users 3 and complicate the health problems of the medical patients 1,4,5 so using these substances increase the rate of physical co-morbidities 6 . Some of the consequences of opium/opioid use are listed as follows:…”

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Prevalence of Substance Abuse/Alcohol Consumption and their Predictors among Patients Admitted in Operating Rooms of a General Educational Hospital, Tehran, Iran

Alavi¹,

Mehrdad²,

Makarem³

2016

AJPRHC

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Substance/alcohol abuse is an important public health threat in most countries. Social stigmatization and legal restrictions prevent accurate and direct estimate of prevalence of substance/alcohol abuse in Iran. This study aimed to estimate of the prevalence of alcohol and substance use among Iranian patients who were admitted to operating rooms of a general hospital in Tehran and identified risk factors that may predict alcohol and substance use. This cross-sectional study was conducted among all consecutive patients who were admitted to 16 operating rooms in Vali-e-Asr General Educational Hospital (Tehran, Iran) during March 2014 to September 2015. Data were derived from a medical history form prior to operation by trained nurses who were working in the operating rooms. Among 1136 patients admitted to operating rooms, 105 (28.7%) men and 21 (2.7%) women were substance/alcohol users. The main substance of abuse was opium (57.3%) followed by alcohol consumption (25.6%) and water pipe smoking (14.8%). Cigarette smoking was reported by 110 (30.1%) men and 21 (2.7%) women. Sex, cigarette smoking and family history of alcohol and substance abuse predicted 42.3% of the variance in substance abuse/alcohol consumption. Substance use, especially opium, alcohol, water pipe tobacco and cigarette smoking were found to be significantly high particularly among male patients. Being a man, current cigarette smoking and having a first-degree family member who had abused substances should be considered when planning preventive or therapeutic programs.

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Prevalence of Alcohol Dependence and Abuse in a General Hospital; Sensitivity and Specificity of MAST

Abstract: Aim: Alcohol abuse and dependence is an important public health con

Cited by 2 publications

References 21 publications

Impact of residential schooling and of child abuse on substance use problem in Indigenous Peoples

Impact of residential schooling and of child abuse on substance use problem in Indigenous Peoples

Prevalence of Substance Abuse/Alcohol Consumption and their Predictors among Patients Admitted in Operating Rooms of a General Educational Hospital, Tehran, Iran

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