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Clients' experience with seeking in-patient addiction treatment
Červenková, Nikola ; Mravčík, Viktor (advisor) ; Koutská, Kateřina Olga (referee)
Background: Accessibility is a crucial factor in entering addiction treatment. Barriers and facilitating factors of starting treatment are well known from the perspective of clients, professionals, and the system. However, the experience of clients with starting treatment and related factors are not described and characterized enough in the Czech Republic. Aims: The aim of this bachelor thesis was to describe how clients choose facilities and how does the process of starting in-patient addiction treatment looks like from clients' perspective, and what are the factors that influence this process. Methods: Quality research was conducted using semi-structured interviews with clients addicted to alcohol, in in-patient treatment. The sample consisted of 22 clients. The data was analysed using interpretive phenomenological analysis, respectively the method of creating themes. Results: Results showed that most of the respondents chose the organization based on the waiting period or because it was recommended by someone. Another theme was, that they picked it because of some specific characteristics (geographical accessibility, the length of treatment, strict regime). 4 factors which helped clients with starting treatment were analysed: enough information about treatment, previous experience with the...
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The relation between the menstrual cycle and craving for addictive substances among the female clients of residential treatment.
Bártková, Anna ; Doležalová, Pavla (advisor) ; Minařík, Jakub (referee)
There are sex differences in the emergence of addiction and drug use. One of the causes of the differences is the effect of female sex hormones, estrogen and progesterone. Their levels in the body can affect both the subjective effects of drugs, as well as craving and the risk of relapse during the addiction treatment process and abstinence. The aim of this work is to examine the influence of the menstrual cycle on craving for addictive substances and to try to map in what period of the menstrual cycle craving occurs most often for women. As a research qualitative design was used, semi-structured interviews with women in residential treatment of addiction (therapeutic community and psychiatric hospital) were used as a method. The research sample consisted of 13 respondents. Two semi-structured interviews were conducted two months apart. Data were analyzed using the tuft creation method. The results point at the existence of a relationship between menstrual cycle and substance craving. Even though the respondents' answers are ambivalent, the most common triggers of craving are unpleasant emotions that occur more frequently in the period before menstruation begins. However, less than half of the respondents report a direct link between craving and the period before menstruation. The findings are in...
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