[Study on the quality of life and its impact factors of drug users with opiate dependence in three cities in Sichuan].

OBJECTIVE

To analyze the quality of life (QOL) of drug users with opiate dependence in 3 cities in Sichuan, find the impact factors of QOL, and provide some foundation for improving the QOL of this population.

METHODS

The short form 36 ( SF-36) and perceived social support scale (PSSS) were used to assess QOL and social support, respectively. A self-designed questionnaire that was utilized to investigate the general characteristics and factors related to drug dependence. The data were tested by the Student t test, correlated analysis, variance analysis, and linear stepwise multivariate regression.

RESULTS

(1) The score of physical functioning, role-physical, body pain, general health, vitality, social functioning, role-emotional, mental health of opiate users were significantly lower than that of the control (P < 0.001). The social support of opiate users was significantly lower than the control when used the PSSS to evaluate various domain of social support (P < 0.001). (2) The univariate analysis showed that total 17 factors included age, marital status, education, occupation, economic income, smoking, chronic disease, 3 domains of social support, drug-taking manner, co-use syringe, drug-taking of family member, duration of drug-taking, dose of drug-taking, abstinence manner and relapse time were correlated with the all or part of the domains of the QOL. (3) The multivariate analysis indicated that the main factors involved in influenced the QOL of the opiate users were duration of drug-taking, dose of drug-taking, external social support of family, total social support, co-use syringe and economic income. Marital status, internal social support of family, drug-taking manner, chronic disease, smoking, drug-taking of family members, abstinence manner and relapse times had impacts on a few domains of the QOL.

CONCLUSION

The QOL of opiate users in 3 cities in Sichuan was low and they were lack of enough social support.