Komorbiditas Pecandu Narkotika
Journal Title: Kesmas: National Public Health Journal - Year 2014, Vol 8, Issue 7
Abstract
Narcotics are abused can lead to dependence. The longer experiencing drug dependence will worsen the quality of health care. In injecting drug users, complications such ashepatic, comorbidities, pulmonary TB, and HIV/AIDs also higher. The purpose of this study was to determine the comorbidity of drug abusers and its determinant. The method is a cross sectional study using secondary data, medical records at the Drug Dependence Hospital Jakarta in 2013. The study population were all drug dependent patients who are hospitalized, undergoing rehabilitation and outpatient care, and sample is total population of 303 people. Data were analyzed using univariate, bivariate and multivariate analyzes. The results showed that patients treated in outpatients and comorbidities associated with drug addicts. The final model of multivariate analysis showed that longer using drugs is the most influential variable on the comorbidity of drug addicts.
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Rico Januar Sitorus
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