Psychosocial characteristics of patients admitted to a drug rehabilitation unit in Nigeria

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“…This finding is also supported by Abayomi et al (2012) who found a mean age of 31.8 in their study and reported that most of their participants were males, and never married. Similarly, Eze et al (2009) reported most of their respondents to be male, single and unemployed. However, the discrepancies here is between educational attainments and employment status of the participants in this present study, 50% attended secondary school education and 40.4% attended tertiary education making a total of 90.4% while Abayomi et al (2012) reported that 61.9% had less than secondary school education in their Note: Current use of substance is the usage within the last three month as categorized by World Health Organization (WHO) using ASSIST Questionnaire.…”

“…Most of the respondents were never married (70.5%), about half of them were unemployed and 61.9% of them had less than secondary education. Another research in the southern part of the country by Eze et al (2009) looked at the psychosocial characteristics of patients admitted to a drug rehabilitation unit found similar outcomes. In addition, most of the respondents used different combinations of psychoactive substances.…”