Open AccessEFFECT OF HARD DRUG ADDICTION ON PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING OF PERSONS ATTENDING MAT CLINIC
Author(s) -
Alex Ivono Otoyo
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of health sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2710-2564
DOI - 10.47941/ijhs.522
Subject(s) - addiction , simple random sample , medicine , sample size determination , population , substance abuse , family medicine , inclusion (mineral) , descriptive statistics , descriptive research , inclusion and exclusion criteria , sample (material) , psychiatry , psychology , alternative medicine , social psychology , pathology , statistics , chemistry , mathematics , environmental health , chromatography
Purpose: The study, therefore, seeks to establish the effect of hard drug addiction on psychological well-being of persons attending mat clinic.Methodology: This study will adopt a descriptive survey design. The study will employ a population of 450 respondents, that is the, guardians /patients, and nurses of the clinic. The population of the study will include the patients attending and nurses working with the patients at MAT clinic in Kenya. According to Kothari (2004), a sample size of between 10 and 30% is a good representation of the target population, for populations not exceeding 1000. The target sample size for this study, therefore, will be 10% of the total respondents of the clinic, i.e., 45 respondents selected by simple random sampling method. Inclusion criteria and exclusion criteria will be used where the guardians/patients who attended the clinic and the nurses working in the clinic will be included, while the patients who are mentally incapacitated to respond to the questions as well as the nurses not directly involved with the patients will be excluded. The study will use questionnaires, key information and interview guides to collect the primary data. Analysis of data will be done by use of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) computer software.Findings: The study finds that there is a significant impact of hard drug addiction on psychological well-being of persons attending mat clinic. Unique contribution to theory, policy, and practice: Both psychological well-being and substance abuse are influenced by numerous overlapping and interacting factors and as such, any psychometric scales trying to identify adolescents at risk for psychological problems and substance abuse would have to look at them in interaction. Fortunately, it seems that the Psychological Well-Being Scale used for the purpose of this research can serve this dual purpose, namely to identify adolescents with a negative psychological well-being and consequently identify those adolescents at risk for substance abuse.