Strengthening Of Mental Health In Adult Users, Cuenca-Ecuador
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Keywords
anxiety, drugs, intervention
Abstract
Background: Addictions affect the mental health of consumer patients because they involve the altered functioning of various brain circuits, which translates into multiple cognitive, emotional and behavioral disorders, requiring immediate preventive actions and promotion to strengthen their mental health.
Objective: Develop interventions to strengthen the Mental Health of addicted patients, Cuenca 2022 -2023.
Methodology: A quasi-experimental quantitative study was carried out with the application of pretest and posttest, including 85 adult substance-consuming patients, Cuenca-Ecuador. A direct interview was carried out with the study participants by applying an ex-professional questionnaire of sociodemographic data, application of the Hamilton Anxiety scale. The analysis was carried out with the SPSS v26.0 program through descriptive and inferential statistics, considering statistically significant results at values of p<0.05.
Results: Of the consumer patients participating in the study, in the pre-test, 29.4% presented mild to moderate anxiety and 45.9% had moderate to severe anxiety, in the post-test after the intervention, 84.7% without anxiety and 7.1% present mild severity of anxiety. In addition, a statistically significant association is identified between the age between 18-30 years and p= 0.017 in the age of 31-45, level of secondary education there is an association with a value p= 0.01, economic income there is a significant association with all categories, economic income less than the basic floor with a p= 0.03, equal to the basic salary with a p= 0.031 and higher than the basic salary with a value p= 0.045. Patients with a level of education and economic income are becoming aware that substance use affects their personal and family life.
Conclusion: The study shows that substance-consuming patients have high levels of anxiety.
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