Socio-demographic profile, personality profile and resilience among patients with substance use disorder

Pages: 1049-1051
Aijaz Ahmad and Mohd Altaf (Department of Psychiatry, GMC, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir)
Tahseen Jan, Saima Hassan, Rifat Majeed, and Nasir Ahmad (Department of Psychology, Indira Gandhi National Open Universit, New Delhi)

The abuse of drugs is an international problem which affects almost every country in the world, and same is the case with Kashmir. Drug abuse is increasing day by day in Kashmir resulting in number of patients being admitted daily for drug deaddiction in Kashmir. The present study was designed to assess socio-demographic background, personality and resilience among such patients. A sample of 30 male patients diagnosed as having substance use disorder were selected by using purposive sampling method from the drug de-addiction centre. Socio-demographic data sheet, 16 PF questionnaire and The Conner Davidson Resilience Scale was used to assess personality and resilience among patients. The result findings revealed that most of the patients belonged to high income nuclear families having age below 25 years, and were unmarried and illiterate. Most common subastance abused was cannabis. Most of the patients were having personality factors like Less intelligent, self-sufficient, experimenting and affected by feelings. Resilience factors were found to have helped in rehabilitation. The study helps to find the pattern of drug abuse across different socio-demographic variables in Kashmir as well as the personality factors which predispose for such problem. This understanding can be quite useful in prevention and management of drug abuse.