Manifestation of Psychopathologies among Substance Use Disorder Patients and nondependent Psychiatric Patients

Abstract

The study studied to find out whether psychopathologies play a role among substance use disorder (SUD) patients and non-dependent psychiatric patients in the manifestation of substance dependence problems. The sample size comprised one hundred and twenty (120) patients drawn through purposive sampling. Sixty (60) patients from Drug Alcohol Treatment Education and Rehabilitation (DATER) unit of Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Barnawa, Kaduna. While the remaining sixty (60) patients from male and female wards of the same hospital who are nondependent psychiatric patients. DSM-V diagnostic criteria were applied to diagnose psychopathology as associated with substance dependence by the Psychiatrists while researcher administered Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2) to further ascertain the presence of psychopathology and for data collection. The results of this study showed that there was a significant main effect of psychopathology among SUD participants, example, Mania, t (118) = -4.80, p< .001, Paranoid, t (118) = -4.42, p< .001, Schizophrenia, t (118) = -6.28, p<.001, Hypochondriasis, t (118) = -4.37, and Psychasthenia, t (118) = -2.70, p< .001, and nondependent psychiatric participants in the manifestation of substance dependent problems. The overall findings in this study lends support to the hypothesis, which predicted that a statistically significant difference exists between SUD participants and nondependent psychiatric participants in the manifestation of substance dependent problems.