Quality of life and factors related to quality of life among drug users who be treated at Somdet phrasangharaja 19th Hospital Kanchanaburi province

Abstract

This study is a quasi-experimental research, one group, before-after measurement, to study and compare the quality of life among drug users before and after receiving treatment and factors related to the quality of life. The sample group is new drug users who came to receive treatment during December 2023 - March 2024. A purposive sample of 30 case was selected. The instruments used in the experiment are the Drug Situation Counseling Manual for patients receiving treatment at Somdet phrasangharaja 19th Hospital. The instruments used for data collection are the 26-question Thai version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life Scale, with a Cronbach's Alpha reliability of 0.92. The questionnaire on population characteristics is used to analyze data using descriptive statistics, frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation. The statistics used for analysis are paired t - test and Stepwise Logistic regression method.
The research results found that the majority of the sample group was male, 80 percent, aged between 21-30 years (56.60 percent), average age 25.53 years (S.D. = 6.15), single status 60 percent, lower secondary education 43.30 percent, general laborer 50 percent, no income 30 percent, living with parents 43.30 percent, good relationship with parents 66.70 percent, average duration of drug use 5.09 years, no physical illness 80 percent used only one type of drug, 73.30 percent used as an addict 53.30 percent, received outpatient treatment 96.70 percent.
The results of the comparison of quality of life found that the overall quality of life before treatment was at a moderate level ( = 79.90, S.D. = 1.55). The overall quality of life after treatment was at a moderate level ( = 93.00, S.D. = 1.36). The results of the comparison of the differences in quality of life before and after treatment found that there were 4 dimensions with statistically significant differences: physical health (p–value 0.027), mental (p–value 0.000), environment (p–value 0.003), and overall quality of life (p–value 0.000). As for social relationships, there was no statistically significant difference (p–value 0.075). The results of the correlation study found that no factors were statistically significantly related to quality of life.