INTRODUCTION AND AIMS To examine the relationship between three outcome measures used by a specialist addiction service (UK): the Leeds Dependence Questionnaire (LDQ), the Social Satisfaction Questionnaire (SSQ) and the 10-item Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation (CORE-10). DESIGN AND METHOD A clinical sample of 715 service user records was extracted from a specialist addiction service (2...

INTRODUCTION Populations displaced by conflict face numerous threats to their psychological well-being; consequently, the prevalence of mental health problems, including anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder can be elevated as compared to populations who have not experienced forced displacement. PROBLEM Little is known about the mental health needs of displaced Iraqis. The f...

CONTEXT It is important to monitor trends among publicly funded family planning clinics to determine where clinics are successfully meeting the contraceptive service needs of low-income women and where more effort is needed. METHODS Service data for all U.S. agencies and clinics providing subsidized family planning services were collected for 2001 and compared with similar data collected for ...

BACKGROUND Spiritual intelligence is defined as the human capacity to ask questions about the ultimate meaning of life and the integrated relationship between us and the world in which we live. It results in an increase in psychological well-being of individuals as well as having a goal in their life. This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between spiritual intelligence with p...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE Globally, children who work and live on the streets are at higher risk of undesired behavioral health outcomes, including increased drug use and abuse. Considering the rapid growth of this population in Iran and the lack of program planning that is partly due to a scarcity of research-based information, this study was conducted in 2013 to investigate drug use among st...

Croft et al 1 found a prevalence of chronic widespread pain in 11.2% of the population. About one in six of these individuals has significant psychological problems, but rates of psychiatric morbidity are even higher in patients attending rheumatology outpatient clinics and pain clinics in general hospitals (Fig 1). These findings suggest that psychological assessment of patients with chronic p...

background; methadone maintenance therapy (mmt) is an evidence-based approach for opiate addiction treatment. while its effectiveness in reducing opiate use has been evidently verified, unanswered questions with respect to the cultural scenarios for mmt programs remain unanswered. this study was conducted to explore understanding address mmt initiation among a women-recruited sample of persons ...