ABSTRACT
This research design was built upon modals of equivalent groups and consisted of two groups: A dependent group consisted of 103 addicted males [age range 18-45 years, not ignorant and fulfilling all diagnostic criteria of DSM-IV for addiction] and a control group consisted of 103 members of the addicted families had no history of psychiatric disorders, free of any substance abuse and had GHQ score less than 4 and had the same educational and social levels. Clinical psychiatric interview, child trauma questionnaire and the general health questionnaire were used. The results indicated that child abuse was much higher in the experimental than the control group, especially its severe form. Physical abuse and addiction were more common in the university graduated group. The main characters of the addicted persons who had abused child were: Ages from 25 to 29 years, heroin addict [40.2%], having intravenous injection [42.7%], 5-9 years duration [32%], smoking [49%], personality disorder, especially antisocial, medical illness, an increase in the psychological suffering and having high score on GHQ
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Humans , Male , Substance-Related Disorders , Puberty , Epidemiologic StudiesABSTRACT
In this work, the experimental reality and to what extent it can be believable were studied by comparing an experimental group of mentally disordered patients and healthy individuals as a control group. The general health questionnaire [GHQ.30] was applied on 218 persons [109 in the experimental group and 109 in the control group]. The psychiatric diagnosis was done by semi-structured interview and diagnostic criteria of the International Classification of Psychiatric Disorders, Tenth Edition [ICD.10]. The results showed that the prevalence of Estikhara pray is more in the healthy individuals than the psychiatric disordered ones. The Estikhara pray done with a high ratio by patients with adjustment disorders and non-organic sexual disorders and with a low ratio by mood disordered patients