Correlation between Psychological Distress with Level of Methamphetamine Dependence in Male Chronic Methamphetamine Users in the Rehabilitation Center of North Sumatra Province

Abstract

: The aim of this study was to find the correlation between psychological distress and level of methamphetamine dependence in male chronic methamphetamine users. Drug users have fulfilled the inclusion criteria, has been done detoxification, male, methamphetamine use disorder, not psychotic. The exclusion criteria are those who have general medical illnesses based on the history of the disease, have a history of previous head trauma and organic mental illnesses. Structured interviews with MINI ICD-10 to determine subject is indeed a substance use disorder. To know the psychological distress, we determine it with the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), and to see the score level of dependence, we used WHO ASSIST (The Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement). The study found that out of 88 males subjects with methamphetamine use disorder. The median of dependency level score is 30.5 (6-41), and mean of HADS score is 15.67 (4.76). This study obtained Pearson correlation of psychological distress level scores and dependency level scores with r = 0.242, p = 0.023. There is a significant weak correlation between psychological distress level scores and dependency level scores.