Title: Comparative study on depression & anxiety status of addict & Non addict in apex de-addiction & rehabilitation centre, Uttarakhand
Authors: Satyaprakesh, Anupama Arya
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v6i7.20
Abstract
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), addiction is a worldwide problem. Indeed, more than 15.3 million people confront drug abuse issues internationally, and the abuse of alcohol results in 2.5 million deaths every years. A British Social Trends report notes that drinking, smoking, and drug addictions are rising in the United Kingdom, especially among young people, with more than 50 percent of teenage boys consuming these substances regularly by the age of fifteen. In the United States, the incidence of addiction is so high that there are insufficient trained professionals to assist those affected by drug abuse. A social addict is a person who takes drugs in thast way which is allowed in the society. He never breaks any unwritten or unsaid and the borderlines of the society. Moreover he takes drugs in a limited quantity in regular otherwise he takes it sometimes or less quantity so this way of drug use do not let any kind of problem in his life. Scientific research since the mild 1970s show that treatment can help many people change destructive behaviors, avoid relapse & successfully remove themselves from a life of substances abuse and addiction. In this study was done on 90 individuals. i.e; addicts patients (60) were taken from Apex de-addiction & rehabilitation centre, Haldwani (UK) and normal non addict individual(30) were taken from the Apex centre & family members of patients. Random sampling technique for selection of sample consisted of two groups of subjects age 18-35years (young adulthood) and age 35-55 years (middle adulthood) .Non addict individual 15 young adulthood & 15 middle adulthood , addict patients 30 young adulthood & 30 middle adulthood. High level of depression and the low score represent low level of depression Comparison of depression it was found that mean score of addict & non addict were 121 and 83.34 with their standard deviation 38.19 & 38.76.The mean score and standard deviation of young addict & middle addict adulthood were also obtained; the mean score of addict young adulthood is 116.66 & the middle adulthood is 125.33 with Std deviation are 41.39 & 34.14 respectively. Comparisons of non addict young & middle adulthood the measure of depression yield the mean score to be 90.67&87.17 with their Std deviation 41.86 & 39.25.On the measure of anxiety the high score represent high degree of anxiety & low score reveals low level of anxiety, when all addict & non addict group were compared on anxiety, it was found the mean score of addict were 41.33, with their standard deviation 14.25 and mean score of non addict were 28.8 with their Stddeviation 17.4. On comparing anxiety between young & middle adult addict the obtained scores found were 45.61 & 34.81 with their standard deviation 13.99 &14.12. The measure of anxiety the mean score of young & middle adulthood non addict were also obtained & compared the mean score of non addict young adulthood & middle adulthood were 27.6 & 31 with their Std deviation 18.43 & 13.71.The mean score of the former was 34.81 with its Std deviation 14.122 & mean score of later was 22.8 with its Std deviation 23.04. The ‘t’-value was found to be 20168 which is not significant at 0.05 level of confidence. This indicates null hypothesis. It was concluded that the non addict who have freer & less faltered mind are more relaxed, focused, happy and patient then the addicts who are not stable physiologically which is term , affects their psyche.
Keywords: Addict, Non-addict, Depression, Anxiety, Drug abuse, Mean, Standard deviation, t Test.
