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Health related quality of life (HRQoL) in drug addicts and their dependets in relation to the age.
LIŠKOVÁ, Kateřina
In my thesis I address the quality of life of drug addicts in dependence on the duration of their drug use and their age. Drug addicts have a number of social problems and are also exposed to health risks. The objective of my thesis was to determine the quality-of-life score of those persons, and to ascertain whether their quality of life differs in comparison with the general population and also in comparison between the individual groups into which the drug addicts were divided according to the period of the drug use. In order to achieve these objectives, I raised hypotheses H1: Drug addicts have lower quality of life than the general population, H2: The quality of life of drug addicts deteriorates in relation with the length of the addiction, and H3: The quality of life of drug addicts is lower with increased person age. The method used in my work was SF- 36 questionnaire. From the results of my work it follows that, in statistic terms, drug addicts have considerably lower quality of life than the control group in all 8 examined fields (domains). Actually, in three domains the average score achieved by the drug addicts did not reach even a half of the score achieved by the control group. Hypothesis H1 was confirmed. Comparison of individual groups of drug addicts, namely the persons addicted for 11-15 years and the group of users (0-5 years), revealed an interesting value of emotional restriction of roles. From this comparison it follows that the persons who have been drug addicts for rather a long time have not been able to hold their social roles in the society in emotional terms any more, which confirms also hypothesis H2. In the end was hypothesis H3 confirmed. It is also obvious from the results of my work that, while working with drug addicts, the attention needs to be given to their motivation to undertake treatment so that their quality of life ceases to deteriorate and, on the contrary, improves again in their life without drugs.
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