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[Logistic regression analysis of female drug abusers' social-psychological factors]
Objective:
To study the social-psychological health status on female drug abusers.
Methods:
Case-control study and logistic regression analysis.
Results:
Results of simple logistic regression showed that factors with significant ORs were low education level, unemployment, marital status, senseless of life, self-killing, horror, madness, depression, insomnia, dizziness, perspiration, evil dream, divorce, setbacks of emotion, smoking, alcohol-abuse, playing truant, runaway from home, fighting, etc. The results of stepwise logistic regression analysis showed that factors entered the regression model were smoking, runaway from home, divorce, setbacks of emotion, marital status, hopeless toward life, level of education, dizziness, etc.
Conclusion:
Most female drug abusers' social-psychological status was poorer than controls preceding to their drug abuse, which contributed to the major causes of abuse drugs.
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