PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS IN THE FORECAST OF EFFECTIVENESS REHABILITATION OF PATIENTS WITH OPIOID ADDICTION

Authors

  • A. I. Shumova Author

Abstract

The article deals with results of research of psychosocial characteristics of 93 patients with heroin drug addiction (69 men –74,2 %, 24 women – 25,8 %; middle age: M = 33,3; σ = 6,86), their predictive value which is carried out for the purpose of definition for efficiency of a specialized rehabilitation course. There are compared results of studying by means of the structured interview of system of the significant relations of patients with high (n=65) and low (n=28) efficiency of the rehabilitation determined by members of rehabilitation crew in the expert way. It is revealed that such spheres of the significant relations as the family relations (р<0,01), the interpersonal relations (р<0,01) and the relation to an illness (0,05<р<0,1) possess the most predictive informational content. The positive relation in the first two cases meets at patients with high efficiency of rehabilitation more often, and the positive (nozofilny) relation to pathological dependence – at patients with low efficiency. The obtained data allow to carry out more purposefully psychological interventions in the rehabilitation of patients with heroin drug addiction.

Author Biography

  • A. I. Shumova
    Post-graduate student, department of clinical psychology and psychophysiology, St.-Petersburg State University

Published

2016-06-21

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Section

Brief reports