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Loneliness and its impact on quality of life in Chinese heroin-dependent patients receiving methadone maintenance treatment.
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- A randomized clinical trial to assess feasibility, acceptability and preliminary effects of telehealth-delivered cognitive-behavioral therapy for perceived social isolation among individuals with opioid use disorders.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2024Trial
- Social support and quality of life among rural family caregivers of persons with severe mental illness in Sichuan Province, China: mediating roles of care burden and loneliness.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2021Article
- Prevalence and correlates of suicide attempt among Chinese individuals receiving methadone maintenance treatment for heroin dependence.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Frequent nightmares in Chinese patients undergoing methadone maintenance therapy: prevalence, correlates, and their association with functional impairment.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2019Article
- Depression and its impact on health-related quality of life among Chinese inpatients with lung cancer.Oncotarget · 2017Article
- Suicidal ideation among Chinese methadone-maintained patients: prevalence and correlates.Oncotarget · 2017Article
- Pain of methadone-maintained heroin addicts: lonelier individuals feel more intense pain.Oncotarget · 2017Article
- Poor sleep quality is significantly associated with low sexual satisfaction in Chinese methadone-maintained patients.Medicine · 2017Article
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Abstract
To date, no studies have examined loneliness in Chinese patients with substance use disorders. This study determined the prevalence and socio-demographic and clinical correlates of loneliness and its impact on quality of life (QOL) in Chinese heroin-dependent patients (HDPs) receiving methadone maintenance treatment (MMT). A total of 603 HDPs were consecutively recruited from three city-owned MMT clinics in Wuhan, China, and administered with a standardized questionnaire to collect socio-demographic and clinical data. Loneliness and QOL were assessed with a single-item self-report question and World Health Organization QOL Scale Brief Version, respectively. As high as 55.9% Chinese HDPs of MMT clinics endorsed loneliness. Multiple logistic regression found that non-married status, unemployment, religious beliefs, a history of injecting heroin, poor interpersonal relationship, and more depressive symptoms were significant contributors to loneliness. Lonely HDPs had significantly poorer physical and psychological QOL than not lonely HDPs. After controlling for the potential confounding effects of socio-demographic and clinical factors with analysis of covariance, these group-differences in physical (F = 127.169,
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