Conference paper
THE PURSUIT OF PLEASURE - A SELF-ASSESSED GLOBAL QUALITY OF LIFE AS A POTENTIAL SCREENING METHOD FOR PROBLEMATIC USE OF DRUGS AND ALCOHOL
Oleg Fedyk
; Students' Scientific Association in Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Medical University of Silesia, Poland International Centre for Social Development, Institute of Philosophy, Department of Social Sciences, University of Silesia, Poland
Abstract
Background: Notion of self-rated quality of life recently acquires more and more attention among health care professionals. The
aim of this study is to determine whether one of the questionnaires measuring this theoretical concept, QOL10, could be applied to help to identify individuals who have problems with drug abuse.
Subjects and methods: QOL10 questionnaire complemented with several filtering questions has been administered to 200
students in various schools in Poland.
Results: The correspondence between QOL10 and the willingness to take drugs is the strongest for QOL10 above 2.5. For
QOL10 >2.5 a statistically significant positive correlation (r=0.464) has been observed between the frequency of use of psychoactive substances other than alcohol (drugs, medications) and the general quality of life. Therefore they might be considered as a risk group.
Conclusions: QOL10 proved to be quite a specific tool in detecting people who do not have problem with drug abuse. In spite of
that, applying only QOL10 for the purposes studied does not provide conclusive grounds for detecting the problem of drug use.
Nonetheless, it might be of help in serving as an indicator that some individuals belong to the risk group.
Keywords
quality of life, substance use, public health
Hrčak ID:
263873
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Publication date:
15.6.2017.
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