Niveles de depresión, ansiedad y estrés en pacientes con trastornos mentales por consumo de opiáceos

Resumen

Background: mental health is the state of well-being in which the individual performs their abilities, overcomes the normal stress of life, works productively and fruitfully and contributes something to their community, the consumption of psychoactive substances affects mental health by involving altered functioning of various brain circuits, which translates into multiple cognitive, emotional and behavioral disorders. Objective. To determine levels, stress and depression in patients with mental disorders due to opioid consumption in a public Hospital. Methods: Cross sectional study. The population consisted of 51 patients from the Public Hospital who were in the service Center for Attention to Drug Addiction (CAD) and the non-probabilistic sample was 100% of the population since this was the existing one. the last quarter of the year 2018. The instrument used was the abbreviated version of the Anxiety and Stress Depression Scales (DASS-21).  Results: From the total sample, 94.1% of the population corresponds to the male sex and 45.1% were in socioeconomic level 1.  62.7% of the patient’s present depression; the levels of anxiety found date that 62.8% of the patients present it, between light, moderate and severe, finally, stress is present in 82.4% of the participants of the investigation. Conclusions: This study showed that mental disorders due to opiate consumption were more prevalent in men than in women, and the population that presented this type of pathology was mainly adolescents and young people with an average age of 19 years.