DETERMINATION OF LEVEL OF SOCIAL ANXIETY IN ALCOHOL AND SUBSTANCE ADDICTED PEOPLE

The aim of this study is to determine the social anxiety levels of individuals who use alcohol and substance. The research was designed with the quantitative method and 90 women and 224 men were interviewed with a total of 314 people. Participants of the study are addicted individuals who are treated alcohol and substance at Ankara Hacettepe Hospital. The questionnaire form was used to collect the research data and the socio-demographic information of the participants in the first section and the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale were included in the second section. SPSS program was used in the analysis of the data. The tests used and the analysis used in the study are descriptive statistics analysis, One Way-Variance Analysis, and Independent Samples T-Test. In the findings, the level of social anxiety of alcohol and substance users was medium level above. A significant difference was found between the addiction period, age, education level and social anxiety of people with alcohol and substance abuse.