Substance abuse prevalence among patients in a family medical center

Abstract

Introduction: Morbidity and mortality structure significantly changed, especially habit or life-style related disorders, such as cardio-vascular disorders, cancer and accidental injury and mortality is increasing, and disease related economic load is becoming a challenging issue. Public health is confronting this problem. Purpose: To evaluate for substance abuse prevalence in family center patients. Materials and methods: Analytic cross-sectional study design was used and study period was from July to November of 2019. 165 adults participated in this study who is referred to family medical center of “Baatar Khairkhan” of “Khovd” province. Standard questionnaire of STEPS 2013 was used for data collection and biomedical ethical approval was approved (number 2). Results: 44.2% (n=73) of patients were male, 55.8% (n=92) were female. According to the groups 25-29and 30-34-yearold group substance usage was high and low in the > 60-year-old group. Usage intervals such as once a year or 1-2 times per season are high in both sexes. There were no differences in a recent month usage for groups. According to the standard drink numbers, 21.5 standard drinks reported in 30-44 age group of male and 9.7 standard drink reported in 25-34 age group of females. Relatively low numbers reported in other age groups. 30.3% of participants were smokers. Among them 94.0% (n=47) are male and 6.0% (n=3) are female. Smoking rate is higher in groups of 30-34 and 55-59 age groups compared with other age groups. Most of them smoke factory cigarettes and average cigarette number was 6-20. Smoking less than 5 cigarette rates was low.