Predittori clinici e psicopatologici di out-come nel Disturbo da Uso di Cocaina : uno studio di follow-up a tre mesi

The research had as its object of study psychoactive substances, specifi cally cocaine addiction which today has a prevalence of 1.8% worldwide. In collaboration with the Onlus Incontro Community, all those subjects who undertook a residential therapeutic-rehabilitative path for a Cocaine Use Disorder, sometimes with psychiatric comorbidity, were evaluated long itudinally, in order to carry out an in-depth characterization from the point of sociodemographic, clinical and psychopathological view. The primary objective was to identify, within these clinical and psychopathological variables, the possible predictive factors of outcome in subjects affected by DUC.Further more, the objective was to verify how, following a three-month community journey matured from the moment of entry into the Community, the depressive symptoms, the hedonism-volitional drive, the levels of craving and the general state of health change according to the time spent in the Structure.

The present was a prospective observational study that included a sample of 70 patients with a primary diagnosis of Cocaine Use Disorder, recruited consecutively at the study facility, between November 2021 and May 2022.The study envisaged, in an initial phase? within a maximum of two weeks of hospitalization? the compilation of a medical history form for the collection of soci?demographic information.Seventy patients with Cocaine Use Disorder were evaluated, of whom 49 completed the thre?month followup.The sample is therefore composed of 54 male subjects (77.1%), female subjects (22.9%) with an average age of 39± 10.1 years. 77.1% of the sample is unmarried, 21.4% is separated and only 1.4% is married.70% of patients live with their family of origin/spouse and 30% live along .The level of schooling was 9.41 ± 3.70, this means that on average, the sample completed lower secondary school and attended the fi rst year of high school. 52.9% of the sample has a job, while 47.1% is unemployed.

With regard to the type of occupation, 2.9% study, 21.4% perform occasional jobs and the remainder work regularly. 74.3% of the sample smoke cigarettes, with an average of 12.9 - 9.18 per day. Further more, 1/3 of the sample presented legal problems. [Publisher's Text].