Positive emotions and quality of life among methadone maintenance therapy patients and their psychosocial correlates / N. Sankari Ganesh
Positive emotions and Quality of Life among Methadone Maintenance Therapy patients and their psychosocial correlates Objective: The main objective of this study is to assess the positive emotions and the quality of life among patients on methadone maintenance therapy in Hospital Tuanku Jaa’far,...
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| Summary: | Positive emotions and Quality of Life among Methadone Maintenance Therapy patients
and their psychosocial correlates
Objective: The main objective of this study is to assess the positive emotions and the
quality of life among patients on methadone maintenance therapy in Hospital Tuanku
Jaa’far, Seremban and University Malaya Medical Centre as well as their associated
factors such as their psychosocial correlates.
Methodology: This is a cross sectional study, involving 154 patients, which was
conducted from March 2017 until May 2017. All patients receiving MMT from both
University Malaya Medical Centre and Hospital Tuanku Jaa’far were invited to
participate. The sociodemographic and clinical data were obtained from those patients
who consented to the study. The Positive Emotion Rating Scale (PERS) and World
Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL) BREF were used as instruments.
Results: The mean age was 43.8 ±9 years with the most number of the patients being
male (97.4%) and Malays (75.3%). Slightly more than half (50.6%) scored above 30 in
their Positive Emotion Rating Scale. There was a significant association between the
Malay (p=0.042) and, Chinese (p=0.004) ethnic groups with the positive emotions.
Marital status (p=0.010) and employment (p=0.008) were also significantly associated
with the positive emotions, with being married and employed having higher mean
scores. After controlling for potential confounding factors, having positive emotions
predicted a better quality of life in all the domains of quality of life. Non diabetic
patients also significantly predicted a better quality of life in the overall general health
domain where- else being non married and patients without family history of mental
illness significantly predicted a lower quality of life in psychological domain and
overall quality of life respectively.
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Conclusion: The presence of positive emotions significantly improves the quality of life
among patients on MMT program. Other significant contributing factors to the quality
of life of these group of patients are being non diabetic, married and not having a
positive family history of mental illness. Therefore, attention for including evaluation
and teaching of positive emotions during the MMT program should be incorporated for
a more holistic treatment approach which extends beyond maintaining abstinence of drug use. |
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