Abstract
BackgroundAnxiety, an important factor that affects the therapeutic effect and preservation rate of methadone maintenance treatment, has a high prevalence among MMT patients. This study aims to investigate the effects of treatment status and life quality on anxiety in MMT patients.MethodsOne hundred and Seventy-seven methadone maintenance treatment users in Guangzhou, China were evaluated. The socio-demographic, duration and MMT-related characteristics were documented. Anxiety level and quality of life were evaluated by Beck Anxiety inventory (BAI) and the Quality of Life-Drug Addiction (QOL-DA) respectively. The correlation between different factors and BAI score was also analyzed.ResultsThe BAI total score and the QOL-DA score were 7.1±8.2, 163.5±21.4 respectively. 30.5% of the subjects showed mild to severe anxiety. Treatment interruption and QOL-DA score had strong correlations with the score of BAI, with correlation coefficients of 0.17 and − 0.08 respectively.ConclusionsAnxiety symptoms were commonly presented in MMT patients. Treatment interruption and quality of life are two major factors affecting anxiety of MMT patients.
Highlights
Anxiety, an important factor that affects the therapeutic effect and preservation rate of methadone maintenance treatment, has a high prevalence among MMT patients
This study focuses on the effects of treatment status and quality of life which gives a good assessment of the patient’s condition on anxiety in MMT patients
There were 177 methadone maintenance treatment users enrolled in the study of which 155 were male (87.6%) and 22 were female (7.5%)
Summary
An important factor that affects the therapeutic effect and preservation rate of methadone maintenance treatment, has a high prevalence among MMT patients. This study aims to investigate the effects of treatment status and life quality on anxiety in MMT patients. Methadone maintenance treatment (MMT), a substitutive therapy, has been proved helpful in reducing opioid abuse, drugrelated risk behaviors, the infection rate of AIDS and crimes [3,4,5], as well as improving patiIt is noteworthy that some researches indicated thatent’s overall wellbeing [6]. It was reported that over 18% among MMT patients has anxiety symptom [8,9,10,11, 12]. Anxiety increase the risk of injection practices, HIV infection and criminal behaviors among MMT patients [10].
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