Psychosocial Factors as the Determinants of Relapse in Individuals with Substance Use Disorder

Najwa Farooq ()
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Najwa Farooq: Department of Psychology (University of Gujrat, Pakistan)

International Journal of Innovations in Science & Technology, 2022, vol. 4, issue 6, 97-104

Abstract: Relapse to substance abuse after withdrawal is one of the most perplexing and frustrating aspect of addiction. The word relapse defines as collapse/hindrance to the client’s prior substance dependence behavior after treatment due to many psychological, social,and other associated factors. This study is designed to find out the psychological and social factors which determine relapse behavior in individualswith substance use disorder. A cross-sectional study was conducted among 200 relapse patients from November 2020 to January 2021 in different rehabilitations inWazirabad, Gujranwala, Lahore, Gujrat,and Sialkot cities of Pakistan. Data were collected by using a psychosocial functioning scale. Data analyzed using SPSS 21.A total of 200 individuals were taken ,ofwhich 170 were males and 30 females. The results indicates that the most important predictor was risk-taking 0.148 (100% of normalized importance) followed by social conformity 0.130 (88% of normalized importance), decision making confidence 0.128 (86.2% of normalized importance), childhood problem 0.125 (84.4% of normalized importance), hostility 0.125 (84.0% of normalized importance), depression 0.119 (80.5% of normalized importance), self-esteem 0.114 (76.6% of normalized importance) and anxiety 0.111 (74.7% of normalized importance).Social factors were connected with a high relapse rate. These results may help clinicians to improve treatment and policy guidelines for the prevention of relapse to drug addiction.

Keywords: Psychosocial factors; Relapse; Substance use disorder (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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