Quality of Life of Caregivers of Addicts

Summary

American Society of Addiction Medicine defined Addiction as a treatable, chronic medical disease involving complex interactions among brain circuits, genetics, the environment, and an individual's life experiences. People with addiction use substances or engage in behaviors that become compulsive and often continue despite harmful consequences.

Addiction is considered as a "family disease." Addiction affects the individual as well as those around them in terms of occupational and social dysfunction, physical and emotional distress, and financial burden which has a serious impact on the lives of the significant others.

Conditions

• Addiction

Interventions

OTHER

1-WHOQOL-BREF(WHO-Quality of life-BREFF) Arabic version Scale

WHOQOL-BREF(WHO-Quality of life-BREFF) Arabic version Scale The WHOQOL-BREF is composed of 26 self-administered items. Using a 5-point Likert response scale ranging from 1 (very dissatisfied/very poor) to 5 (very satisfied/very good), family caregivers were asked to rank each item accordingly. Caregivers were asked to respond to the items indicating their assessment of QOL during the preceding 2 weeks, Ohaeri and Awadalla developed and tested the Arabic version of the WHOQOL-BREF among an Arab population in Kuwait. The translated Arabic WHOQOL-BREF has considerable reliability and validity indices . As reported in the Kuwaiti study, a satisfactory (≥0.7) Cronbach's alpha was reported for the full questionnaire and the domains

OTHER

SCL-90-R(Symptoms Checklist-90-Revised) Arabic version scale

developed by Derogatis et al. and El-Behairy. established the validity and reliability of the Arabic version.SCL-90-R is a 90-item self-report symptom inventory, and reflect the psychologic symptom pattern of psychiatric and medical patients. Each item of the "90" is rated on a five-point scale of distress (0-4), ranging from "not at all" to "extremely".Under usual circumstances, SCL-90-R requires between 12 and 15 minutes to be completed.SCL-90-R is a measure of the current psychologic symptom status. It is not a measure of personality, except indirectly, in that certain personality disorders may manifest a characteristic profile on the primary symptom dimensions.

OTHER

addiction severity index

a semi-structured interview that takes approximately 45 minute. developed to evaluate treatment outcome in substance abusers. The instrument focuses on seven areas that are typically affected in the lives of substance abusers: medical status, employment, drug use, alcohol use, legal status, family/social status, and psychiatric status. Information regarding frequency, duration, and severity of problems in these seven areas is collected for both lifetime and recent (past 30 days) history. The ASI provides two types of scores: severity and subjective ratings of the client's need for treatment, and composite scores of problem severity during the prior 30 days. Specific alcohol-related questions include total lifetime years of use, money spent on alcohol, and number of days that alcohol problems are experienced.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Assiut University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Saleh Ahmed Mahmoud, Resident · Assiut University

• ALaa EL-DIN Mohamed darweesh, MD · Assiut University

• Mohamed Fawzy Mohamed, AP · Assiut University

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2023-01-01

Primary Completion

2023-08-01

Completion

2023-10-01

Countries

• Egypt

Study Locations