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ABSTRACT FORM Please send it per e-mail to [email protected] May 28th 2016 TITLE OF PRESENTANTION Measuring the health of drug-users participating in Therapeutic Community using the Health Status Questonaire Short Form 36 (SF-36). SYMPOSIUM THEME AUTHORS 1 Name Sotirios Bountis Organization Therapeutic Programme KETHEA EXODOS (THERAPY CENTER FOR DEPENDENT INDIVIDUALS) Country GREECE 2 3 4 Contact details of lead author Name Sotirios Bountis E-mail [email protected] TECHNICAL NEEDS FOR ORAL PRESENTATIONS Video projector for Power Point presentation Withthesponsorshipof: ABSTRACTS (Maximum 500 words) Measuring the clients’ health and well-being in residential treatment (Therapeutic Community) is important for providing appropriate health-related support and monitoring heath. The Short Form 36 (SF-36) Health Status Questionnaire is one of the most widely used generic measures of self-perceived health status. The purpose of this paperis to investigate the health related quality of life of drug users receiving treatment in (Drug free) therapeutic program, using the “SF-36 Health Survey” questionnaire. The research was carried out in December 2009, in the facilities of KETHEA-EXODOS and concerned the total of clients. In total 130 questionnaires were handled out. The questionnaires were given as self-reported with the presence of the researcher. The results that appear from the questionnaires of SF-36 Health Survey were connected with elements that were drawn from two questionnaires, the FTDI and EuropASI, which are supplemented during their entry in the treatment. The parameters that were evaluated concerned demographic characteristics, the inject drug use, the duration of drug use, clues for the existence of bodily, mental and familial problems and the duration of staying in treatment. The clients showed worse life quality (in 6 from the 8 scales of SF-36) than the general population. The longer duration of staying in the treatment is significantly associated with improvement in the scales of Emotional Well Being, Mental Health and marginal the General Health. Other important discoveries we consider: a) the existence of bodily problems of health influences statistically considerably the Scale of General Health, b) the familial problems influences statistically considerably the scale of Social Functioning and c) the duration of inject drug use (when this exceeds the two years) influences statistically considerably the Scale of General Health of patients in this sample. The clients, dependent on heroin, who participate in a drug free therapeutic program even if they remain the general population in health related quality of life, have the possibility of improving up to a significant degree during their stay in the therapeutic program. It is memorable that this improvement concerns the most problematic dimensions of health for those who were dependent on drugs. See conference website for further details: http://www.dianova.it/ewodorsymposiumrome/index.php/en/ Withthesponsorshipof: