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- Title
A Status Review of the Mood, Suicide Attempts and Substance Use in 850 Chronic Pulmonary Patients in One Year.
- Authors
Safa, Mitra; Bamdad Mirabzade Ardekani; Fatemeh Ghasem Boroujerdi; Hajizade, Farzaneh
- Abstract
Introduction: Chronic pulmonary diseases include a wide range of diseases and cover various factors within the sanitation field. Patients with chronic pulmonary diseases require psychiatric and counseling services 10 times more than people with no chronic diseases. Many chronic patients use substances to relieve their pain, but it deteriorates their physical conditions. Thus, the current research was conducted as a status review of the mood, suicide attempts and substance use in chronic pulmonary patients. Methods: The current work is an analytical-observational study. Eight hundred and fifty hospitalized chronic pulmonary patients were evaluated for their psychological status and substance use pattern using accessible methods, for the years 2017- 2018. The patients were afflicted with and experienced tuberculosis, asthma, COPD, and lung transplantation. The frequency indicator, Q square and independent t-tests were applied using SPSS-21 for data analysis. Conclusion: About 42.3 % of men, 34.5% of women, and an aggregate of 73.5 % suffered a depressed mood. Also, 14.2% of the patients had attempted suicide, from which 17.5 % had attempted suicide for 6 to 10 times. In addition, 73.7% of the substance users had used opium, 4.8% of them had used heroin and crack, and 4.45% of them had used met-amphetamine and drugs of their own choice. About 17.05 % of the patients had used multiple substances. 18.3% of substance users had experienced a depressed mood. 35% of water-pipe users had attempted suicide, 33.3% of the patients had been diagnosed with mood disorders, 14.6% of them with substance-induced mood disorders, and 6.7% of them with mood disorders caused by general medical conditions. According to the results explained above, it is required that psychiatric, addiction and physical treatments be provided simultaneously. To adopt a holistic treatment approach, it is required that the patient be treated not just as a pulmonary patient but as a human, and it must be realized that achieving the enhanced acceptance of the patient and the complete treatment shall be possible only through the comprehensive and simultaneous treatment of the body and the mind.
- Subjects
SUICIDAL behavior; MENTAL health services; SUBSTANCE-induced disorders; COUNSELING; MENTAL illness
- Publication
Iranian Journal of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences / Progress in Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, 2018, p166
- ISSN
1735-8639
- Publication type
Article