Quality of life of users of psychoactive substances, relatives, and non-users assessed using the WHOQOL-BREF
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2013
- handle: 10670/1.x0scpa
- 1413-8123
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Salud Relatives Addiction Drug users Quality of lifeSujets proches
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Taís de Campos Moreira et al., « Quality of life of users of psychoactive substances, relatives, and non-users assessed using the WHOQOL-BREF », Ciência & Saúde Coletiva, ID : 10670/1.x0scpa
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"Quality of life is related to one of the basic human desires, which is to live well and feel good. The scope of this study was to evaluate the quality of life of psychoactive substance users and relatives, compared to non-users, analyzed by socioeconomic strata. A cross-sectional study with users of psychoactive substances, relatives, and other individuals who called the Information and Orientation Service regarding drug abuse. Data collection took place between November 2009 and December 2010. Data was collected from users, relatives, and non-users, including socioeconomic characteristics and data regarding substance consumption when appropriate. In addition to this the abbreviated version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL-BREF) questionnaire was given to 347 individuals. Among the 138 users (70%) used alcohol, 76 (39%), marijuana, 111 (57%) tobacco, 78 (40%) cocaine and 70 (36%) crack. Control subjects had higher, scores than the relatives of users and users in all areas of the questionnaire (p < 0.05). Psychoactive substance users scored lower in almost all domains and overall score in the WHOQOLBREF questionnaire in comparison with the sample of non-drug users. These findings reflect poor quality of life of patients and their relatives."