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OBJECTIVE To examine the self-esteem, quality of Life and psychiatric disturbances in HIV positive Drug dependents in Pakistan. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional design. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY The study was conducted, in Model Drug Abuse; Trcatment Center DHQ Hospital, Faisalabad, Pakistan from February 2016 to February 2017. SUBJECTS AND METHODS 114 HIV positive drug dependents participated in the study through non-probability consecutive sampling. Demographic variable Proforma, Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale, WHO QOL BREF and Self Report Questionnaire-24 wereadministered. RESULTS Results showed that about half of the sample lived in urban areas, was married and started abusing drugs on peer pressure and there was significantly positive correlation among all four domains of QOL. One sample t-test confirmed that majority of sample had low self-esteem (M = 11.25, SD - 432), t(113) - -9.26, p - 0.00 and high psychiatric symptomatology (M = 14, SD=4.4), t( 113)=23.1, p=0.00. CONCLUSION HIV positive drug abusers belonged to special population segments like young males, uneducated daily wagers or unemployed. Most of the HIV positive drug abusers had low self-esteem and high psychiatric disturbances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To assess the rate of anxiety and depression in the patients suffering from various medical diseases. Design: Cross sectional study. Palace and Duration of Study: The study was conducted in District Headquarter Hospital and Allied Hospital, Faisalabad from 2005 to 2007. Subjects and Methods: Participants were inducted in the study through purposive convenient sampling technique. 339 patients of cardiac, cancer, hepatic, and dermatological diseases from both the above mentioned hospitals participated in this study. Co morbidity of psychiatric disorders was screened out with the help of DSM IV TR's criteria for depression and generalized anxiety. Results: Anxiety (n=32, 9.43%) was the major diagnosis in age group 40 - 49 and depression (n=31, 9.14%) in age group 50 - 59. All the diagnosis i.e., anxiety (n=30, 8.84%), depression (n=51, 15.04%) and both anxiety and depression (n=25, 7.37%) were common in illiterate patients. Anxiety (n=37, 10.91%) and depression (n=57, 16.81%) was found more in housewives. All the diagnosis i.e., anxiety (n=77, 22.71%), depression (n=93, 27.43%) and both anxiety and depression (n=45, 13.27%) were common in married patients. Anxiety (n=54, 15.92%) was common in hepatic patients and cardiac patients were having highest share of depression (n=51, 15.04%) and both anxiety and depression (n=32, 9.43%). Conclusion: Most cardiac patients were depressed; most heaptic patinets were anxious; almost half of cancer patients were both anxious and depressed; while majority of dermatological patients were having no psychiatric illness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]