Características clínicas en tres grupos de dependientes a drogas

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"Objective: to analyse various clinical indicators (change processes, psychophatology and addictive history) in three groups of employees todrugs and, to prove if the dependency diagnosis to a concrete substanceimplies differences in such indicative.Design: transverse studySetting: Addictive Behaviors Unit of Catarroja. Area 9 of Health ofValencia. Primary Care.Patients: they are included 107 patients in treatment split into threegroups in function of the diagnostic of dependence according to criteriaDSM-IV: group of dependence to alcohol (n=31), group of dependence toheroine (n=31), group of dependence to cocaine (n=45).Measurements and results: the sociodemografic and clinic characteristicsof the sample analysed (frequencies and measures analysis of centraltrend), the three groups of patients are compared through varianceand test analysis of Schfeé to prove differences introgrup. There aren´tdifferences estadisticall meaningful in the indicators of change processesand psychophatology. On the other hand, there are differences in thecorresponding indicators to the addictive history: consumption years,abuse years, previous treatments (p=0.000) and hospital income(p=0.005).Conclusions: It´s possible when the patients with diagnostic of dependenceto substances demand treatment, they are differentiated in the evolutionprocess of their history of consumption and related factors, butthey´ll be similar with respect to other clinic characteristics as thepsychophatology and the motivation to the treatment. It´s indicated theimportance of including evaluation protocols of various indicative whenthe patients demand treatment"