Family support, quality of life and concurrent substance use among methadone maintenance therapy clients in China.
Chunqing Lin,Z. Wu,Roger Detels +2 more
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Based on the findings of this study, it is suggested that involving family members in recruitment and interventions of the MMT programme will achieve higher rates of participation and compliance.About:
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Reliability and validity of the multidimensional scale of perceived social support in Chinese mainland patients with methadone maintenance treatment.
Kaina Zhou,Hengxin Li,Xiaoli Wei,Juan Yin,Peifeng Liang,Hongmei Zhang,Lingling Kou,Mengmeng Hao,Lijuan You,Xiao-Mei Li,Guihua Zhuang +10 more
TL;DR: TheMSPSS has acceptable reliability and convergent/discriminant validity in Chinese mainland MMT patients and the proposed three-factor model of MSPSS is much better fit than the two-factor observed model in this study.
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Predictors of retention in community-based methadone maintenance treatment program in Pearl River Delta, China
TL;DR: MMT retention rate in Guangdong was low and treatment skills and quality should be improved, Meanwhile, participation of family and society should be encouraged.
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Factors associated with depression and anxiety among patients attending community-based methadone maintenance treatment in China
Wenyuan Yin,Lin Pang,Xiaobin Cao,Jennifer M. McGoogan,Michael Liu,Cong-bin Zhang,Zhijun Li,Jianhua Li,Keming Rou +8 more
TL;DR: A considerable proportion of methadone maintenance treatment clients in China have experienced depression and anxiety during treatment, and there is a need to provide tailored mental health interventions for this high-risk population.
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Social-structural factors influencing periods of injection cessation among marginalized youth who inject drugs in Vancouver, Canada: an ethno-epidemiological study.
TL;DR: Qualitative interviews with street-involved young people who use drugs indicate that periods of injection cessation were influenced by access to harm reduction-informed youth-focused services, transitions in route of administration, and the provision of housing and social supports.
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Multilevel Predictors of Concurrent Opioid Use during Methadone Maintenance Treatment among Drug Users with HIV/AIDS
Bach Xuan Tran,Bach Xuan Tran,Arto Ohinmaa,Steve Mills,Anh Thuy Duong,Long Thanh Nguyen,Philip Jacobs,Stan Houston +7 more
TL;DR: Findings show that MMT in the Vietnamese context can dramatically reduce opioid use, which is known to be associated with reduced antiretroviral (ART) adherence.
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Development of the World Health Organization WHOQOL-BREF Quality of Life Assessment
A. Harper,Mick Power +1 more
TL;DR: The WHOQOL-Bas discussed by the authors as discussed by the authors is an abbreviated version of the WHOQol-100 quality of life assessment, which produces scores for four domains: physical health, psychological, social relationships and environment.
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Development of the World Health Organization WHOQOL-BREF quality of life assessment. The WHOQOL Group.
TL;DR: It is envisaged that the WHOQOL-BREF will be most useful in studies that require a brief assessment of quality oflife, for example, in large epidemiological studies and clinical trials where quality of life is of interest.
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Methadone‐Related Opioid Agonist Pharmacotherapy for Heroin Addiction: History, Recent Molecular and Neurochemical Research and Future in Mainstream Medicine
TL;DR: Findings support the early hypotheses of the laboratory that addiction may be due to a combination of genetic, drug‐induced and environmental factors and also, that atypical stress responsivity may contribute to the acquisition and persistence of, as well as relapse to, use of addictive drugs.
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Opening Up: Youth Sex Culture and Market Reform in Shanghai
TL;DR: Farrer as mentioned in this paper explores the changing shape of sex in Shanghai, from teen dating to public displays of affection, from the "fishing girls" and "big moneys" that wander discos in search of romance, and considers how sexual culture has changed in China since its shift to a market-based economy.
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Effectiveness of first eight methadone maintenance treatment clinics in China
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the first phase MMT contributed to a reduction in drug use, drug injecting behaviours, drug-related criminal behaviours, HIV infections, and improved relationships within families among heroin users who participated in the MMT programme.