@article{ref1,
title="Ethnicity and specific psychopathology of addiction. Comparison between Slovenian and Italian heroin use disorder patients",
journal="Heroin addiction and related clinical problems",
year="2019",
author="Maremmani, A.G.I. and Lovrecic, M. and Lovrecic, B. and Maremmani, I.",
volume="21",
number="4",
pages="35-39",
abstract="BACKGROUND: In Heroin Use Disorder (HUD) patients, by applying a PCA (Principal Component Analysis) factor analysis to the 90 items listed in the SCL90 checklist, 5-factor psychopathology was identified for the first time and was then confirmed in other Substance Use Disorders. The first factor reflected a depressive 'Worthlessness-Being Trapped' dimension (W/BT); the second factor picked out a 'Somatic Symptoms' dimension (SS); the third identified a 'Sensitivity-Psychot-icism' dimension (S/P); the fourth a 'Panic Anxiety' dimension (PA); and the fifth a 'Violence-Suicide' dimension (V/S). We confirmed the dimensions' specificity, testing their independence from state-addiction conditions such as treatment typology, type of drug involved, concomitant psychiatric problems, active substance use, and stress reactivity. <br><br>METHODS: In this study, 66 Slovenian HUD (SLO-HUD) patients requesting Agonist Opioid Treatment (AOT) were matched with 66 Italian ones (IT-HUD) according to age and gender; the severity and typology of the five SCL90 dimensions were then compared between the two groups, at the univariate and multivariate levels. <br><br>RESULTS: Severity of psychopathology was able to differentiate SLO-HUD from IT-HUD patients. At univariate level, the S/P PA and V/S dimensions were more severe in SLO-HUD patients, whereas multivariate discriminant analysis was only able to poorly differentiate SLO-HUD from IT-HUD patients (Wilks' Lambda=0.90; χ2=12.73; df=5; p<0.026), showing that only 62.9% of the cases, as initially grouped, had been correctly classified. At the other extreme, psychopathological typology was unable to differentiate between the two samples, SLO-HUD and IT-HUD (χ2=2.14; p=0.709). <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: This study, by demonstrating the same psychopathological typology in SLO-HUD and IT-HUD patients, further supports the specificity of the proposed factorial dimensions that go to make up the psychopathology of SUD. © 2019, Pacini Editore S.p.A. All rights reserved.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1592-1638",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}