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Abstract
People from all walks of life can experience problems with their drug use, regardless of age, race, background, or the reason they started using drugs in the first place. Some people experiment with recreational drugs out of curiosity, to have a good time, because friends are doing it, or to ease problems such as stress, anxiety, or depression. However, it’s not just illegal drugs, such as cocaine or heroin, that can lead to abuse and addiction. Prescription medications such as painkillers, sleeping pills, and tranquilizers can cause similar problems. (Robinson, Smith, and Segal, 2022).
Nurses working in a drug addiction unit are often charged with monitoring the detoxification of admitted persons. As well as, they play a teaching role in providing physical care. They teach persons about the dangers of drug abuse and withdrawal symptoms, including the physical and psychological effects (such as anxiety and depression) and the impact on meeting basic needs. So nurses must assess persons for signs and symptoms of anxiety (e.g. verbalization of feeling anxious, insomnia, restlessness, tachycardia, elevated blood pressure, and self-focused behaviors). (Philo, 2014)
Aim of the Study
The aim of this study was to assess coping pattern among addict persons after recovery through:
• Assessing addict person’s knowledge regarding addiction.
• Detecting addict person’s health needs and problem after recovery from addiction.
• Assessing addict person’s coping pattern after recovery from addiction.
Research questions
• Is there relation between addict persons demographic and their coping pattern?
• Is there relation between addict persons demographic and their knowledge about addiction?
• Is there relation between addict persons knowledge and their coping pattern after recovery from addiction?
Research design:-
A descriptive analytic research design was utilized to conduct this study.
Setting:-
The study was conducted at Al-Abbasia Psychiatric Hospital it is a governmental hospital affiliated to ministry of health (MOH) in (Day care unit in addiction and rehabilitation center) it’s a big hall for follow up recovered addict persons it can take up to 30 persons at same time with good ventilated room its contained white board for any activity explanation The hospital is located at Alabbasia city on Salah Salem street in Cairo. El Abbasia Hospital is the oldest and largest psychiatric hospital in Egypt, and it is operated by the Health Ministry’s General Secretariat of Mental Health and Addiction Treatment. It currently accommodates 1504 beds distributed among 46 departments; this is besides the different outpatient clinics and the daycare treatment and rehabilitation center.
Sampling type:-
Sampling:
● Type of sample: purposive sample was conducted in this study.
● Size: the total number of subjects was 94 recovered addict persons attending to the selected setting under the following criteria:
- Both genders.
- Age ranged from 18-55 years old.
- Different types of drugs addiction.
- History of addiction less than 10 years.
Exclusion criteria:
- persons who are diagnosed as mentally retarded.
- persons with dual diagnosis.
- Alcoholics only.
Sample size:
Study subjects include a representative of total persons in outpatient units attendance rate (N=376) at Al-Abbasia Psychiatric Hospital; were hospitalized during the period 2021. Based on sample size equation 94 persons was participated in the study.
Tools of data collection:
The following tools were used for the data collection:
Tool I: Interviewing questionnaire:
This tool was designed by the researcher and written in simple Arabic language based on scientific literature review to gather data in relation to the following three parts:
Part (1): Demographic data of addict persons who recovered from addiction as regards age, marital status, etc
- Past history of addiction: it consist of: number of years of drug addiction and number of years of recovery
Part (2): Assessment of addict person’s knowledge regarding addiction: it was designed to assess addict person’s knowledge about meaning of addiction, risk factors,etc
Part (3): Health needs and Problems for addict person: it included two parts:
A- Assessment of addict person’s health needs, which included: Physical needs, Psychological needs and Social needs
B- Assessment of addict person’s health problems, which included: Physical problems, Social problems, Psychological problems And Behavior problems
- The total score was divided into (suffering from health problems) which represented more than 20% of the total health problems, and (Unsuffering from health problems) which represented 20% or less of the total health problems
Tool II: Addicted Person coping pattern scale (Brief – COPE):
Assessment of addicted person coping pattern related to social, physical, cognitive, emotional, psychological and behavioral domains. Coping Orientation to Problems Experienced Inventory (Brief-COPE) The Brief-COPE is a 28 item self-report questionnaire designed to measure effective and ineffective ways to cope with a stressful life event.
It can be used to measure how someone is coping with a wide range of adversity (Carver et al., 1989).
Results:
Regarding distribution of studied addict person regarding their demographic characteristics the current study showed that more than two fifth of the studied addict person had 30-<40 years old, all of them were male and less than half of them were married. Also, more than one third of them had secondary education, the great majority of them live at urban area and more than two thirds of them had office work. This may be due to this age is the maturity age for individuals in which their perspectives and cognitive thinking changes to better and became more mature therefore, they decided to stop and to be treated from addiction.
Regarding correlation matrix between total knowledge, total coping, total needs, and total problems the current study showed that there was high statistically significant positive correlation between the total studied addict person’s problems level and total coping. Also, there was statistically significant negative correlation between the total studied addict person needs level and total coping. While, there was no statistically significant correlation between the total studied addict person’s knowledge level and total coping. This may be because coping help persons to achieve their unmet social, psychological and physical needs, in addition to help in treating different health problems as depression, anxiety and avoiding loneliness and changing life style.
Conclusion:
Based on the findings of this study, it can be concluded that, there was statistically significant negative correlation between the total studied addict people needs level and total coping. While, there was no statistically significant correlation between the total studied addict person’s knowledge level and total coping. Also, more than half of the studied addict persons had low effective coping regarding coping level and about one quarter of them had moderate effective coping regarding to coping level. In addition, majority of them didn’t achieve their “physical needs”, less than half of them had sometimes ”psychological needs” and ” social needs”. As well as, majority of the studied addict persons had unsatisfactory total knowledge level, while less than one quarter of those had satisfactory total knowledge level.
Recommendation
Based on the current study findings it is recommended that;
Providing education courses related to addiction and it’s concequances in the community to increase the awareness of people
Design regular programs to assist there recovered addicted person in maintaining their coping and save mental health.
Replication of the current study on a larger probability sample selected from different geographical areas in Egypt to achieve generalization of the results.
In research:
Providing coping programs and support programs for recovered persons to enhance mental health and to accept them in community and increase their productivity.
Future research is needed to assess the affectivity of specific interventions to support persons recovered from addiction.