Perception of Psychological and Social Workers Regards to Addiction Services in Irada Hospital for Mental Health, Jizan 2022

Abstract

Introduction: World health organization stated in 2109 report that 35 million people worldwide suffer from drug use disorders while only 1 in 7 people receive treatment. Further than the destructive effects for the person with drug addiction its negative effects can harm further people, pregnant mother affects her pregnancy.

Materials and Methods: This is cross sectional study conducted between August to November 2022 in Jazan, it included all psychological and social workers in Iraha hospital for mental health, aiming to assess the perception of psychological and social workers about the of prevention services provided by Iradah hospital and the associated factors, data was collected with pre-structured and pre-tested questionnaire, and analyzed with Statistical backage of social science version 25.

Results: (82.6%) were male, more than 80% fromage group 25 to 45, education levels varied from university level (78.9%) and post graduate (21.1%) , 81% were married and 66% lived in urban areas, only 35% of them think the addict have the knowledge about the addiction prevention services and 26.8% think the addict is willing to seek care those facilities. 87% of them agree about the role of family in prevention addiction as well as 87% agree that family breakdown leads to clutches of addiction, there is statistical significance between the sex of psychological and social workers (P-value 0.007) and their perception about the knowledge of addict in importance of addiction prevention services, 60% from both male and female agree about the role of different societies in addiction prevention with no statistical association (Pvalue 0.122) we found that female and age group ( 25-35) is an associated factors with a statistical significance (Pvalue.000) and (Pvalue.02) consecutively

Conclusion: Psychological and social workers are a corner stone in addiction prevention and treatment services, they have a good perception about the role of family, community, education, sport and social  support , they participate actively in health education and awareness raising activities, more effort is needed to be involving in research and be up to date  countries experience in addiction prevention and treatment.