@Article{Czarnecki2017,
journal="Alcoholism and Drug Addiction/Alkoholizm i Narkomania",
issn="0867-4361",
volume="30",
number="1",
year="2017",
title="Quality of life and its correlates in alcohol dependent males: rehab inpatients and shelter or hostel homeless persons",
abstract=" Introduction : Alcohol abuse leads to a  lot of  mental, somatic and social problems and may also be a  cause of  homelessness. These problems are often correlated with a  decrease in alcohol dependent persons’ quality of  life including their capacity to handle everyday issues and the  ability to obtain medical care. The  purpose of  the  study was to compare the  quality of  life of  alcohol dependent persons: rehab centre inpatients and homeless subjects, and also to evaluate correlations between their quality of  life and chosen clinical variables, social support and barriers in obtaining alcohol dependence treatment.    Material and methods:   The  study investigated 60 inpatients treated for alcohol dependence and 29 alcohol dependent homeless persons in shelter and hostel accommodation. All subjects were assessed using the  following psychometrically scales: SF-36, SADD, BDI, MMSE, STAI and an interview questionnaire.   Results : It was observed that rehab inpatients scored slightly worse results than homeless persons with regard to general mental functioning and to limitations in fulfilling life roles due to emotional problems. That is compared to homeless subjects, rehab inpatients had lower scoring of  emotion subscale (E) and mental component summary (MCS) of  the  SF-36. It was suggested that low values of  physical component summary (PCS) of  SF-36 in rehab inpatients were associated with anxiety and somatic symptoms, and low values of  mental component summary (MCS) with intensive anxiety symptoms, depression and other psychic problems. The  observed low PCS values in homeless subject group were associated with duration of  alcohol drinking, and low MCS values with better social support, intensive depression symptoms, and psychic problems.   Conclusions : Despite socio-demographic and clinical differences between studied groups, rehab inpatients and homeless subjects had similar evaluation of  their quality of  life in SF-36 scale scoring.",
author="Czarnecki, Damian
and Ziółkowski, Marcin
and Chodkiewicz, Jan
and Danek, Michał
and Łangowska-Grodzka, Beata
and Zając-Lamparska, Ludmiła",
pages="41--58",
doi="10.5114/ain.2017.68344",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/ain.2017.68344"
}