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[Maternal Attitudes, Irritability, Problem Solving Skills and Decision Making in Adolescents with Substance Use: Case-control Study]
- Source :
- Turk psikiyatri dergisi = Turkish journal of psychiatry. 32(1)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- OBJECTIVE Multiple risk factors affect the emergence of substance use disorders among adolescents and their families. To the best of our knowledge, the effects of irritability, problem solving, decision making skills and maternal attitudes on the severity of the substance use have not been evaluated on the same population. We aimed to evaluate the presence and the effects all of these variables on the severity of substance dependence. METHOD The study included 40 adolescents, between 14 and 17 years of age, consulting the Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Diseases outpatient clinics with complaints of substance use and 40 age and gender matched healthy controls. The diagnoses were based on the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria. Both groups completed a sociodemographic questionnaire, the Parent Attitude Research Instrument (PARI), the Adolescent Decision Making Questionnaire (ADMQ), the ProblemSolving Inventory (PSI) and the DSM-5 Level 2 Irritability Scale. The patient group were also tested on the Addiction Profile Index for Adolescents (API-AF). RESULTS Problem solving skills scores of the patients were lower and the scores on the irritability scale completed by the patients and their parents were higher as compared to the control group. Complacency (indifference) in decision-making predicted the severity of the addiction. As the complacency in decision-making increased, the severity of addiction also increased. CONCLUSION Our results indicated that problem solving and decisionmaking skills and irritability levels of the adolescents together with the family attitudes, affect substance use disorder in adolescence. These variables should be considered in preventive and therapeutic approaches.
- Subjects :
- Adolescent
Substance-Related Disorders
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Population
Decision Making
Irritability
Affect (psychology)
medicine
Outpatient clinic
Humans
education
Child
Problem Solving
media_common
education.field_of_study
Substance dependence
Addiction
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Mental health
Substance abuse
Psychiatry and Mental health
Attitude
Case-Control Studies
medicine.symptom
Psychology
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 26513463
- Volume :
- 32
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Turk psikiyatri dergisi = Turkish journal of psychiatry
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....bc90f2640cf6e74426592fb078929ba7