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Deficits in social perception in opioid maintenance patients, abstinent opioid users and non-opioid users.
- Source :
- Addiction; Mar2013, Vol. 108 Issue 3, p566-574, 9p, 2 Charts
- Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- Aims This study aimed to compare emotion perception and social inference in opioid maintenance patients with abstinent ex-users and non-heroin-using controls, and determine whether any deficits in could be accounted for by cognitive deficits and/or risk factors for brain damage. Design Case-control. Setting Sydney, Australia. Participants A total of 125 maintenance patients ( MAIN), 50 abstinent opiate users ( ABST) and 50 matched controls ( CON). Measurements The Awareness of Social Inference Test ( TASIT) was used to measure emotion perception and social inference. Measures were also taken of executive function, working memory, information processing speed, verbal/non-verbal learning and psychological distress. Findings After adjusting for age, sex, pre-morbid IQ and psychological distress, the MAIN group was impaired relative to CON (β = −0.19, P < 0.05) and ABST (β = −0.19, P < 0.05) on emotion perception and relative to CON (β = −0.25, P < 0.001) and ABST (β = −0.24, P < 0.01) on social inference. In neither case did the CON and ABST groups differ. For both emotion perception ( P < 0.001) and social inference ( P < 0.001), pre-morbid IQ was a significant independent predictor. Cognitive function was a major predictor of poor emotion perception (β = −0.44, P < 0.001) and social inference (β = −0.48, P < 0.001). Poor emotion recognition was also predicted by number of heroin overdoses (β = −0.14, P < 0.05). Neither time in treatment or type of maintenance medication (methadone or buprenorphine) were related to performance. Conclusions People in opioid maintenance treatment may have an impaired capacity for emotion perception and ability to make inferences about social situations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- ANALYSIS of variance
CHI-squared test
CONFIDENCE intervals
EMOTIONS
EPIDEMIOLOGY
MULTIVARIATE analysis
NARCOTICS
SENSORY perception
PSYCHOLOGICAL tests
QUESTIONNAIRES
RESEARCH funding
SOCIAL skills
STATISTICS
T-test (Statistics)
DATA analysis
MULTIPLE regression analysis
CASE-control method
PSYCHOLOGY of drug abusers
DATA analysis software
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09652140
- Volume :
- 108
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Addiction
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 85603995
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/add.12040