dc.contributor |
Háskóli Íslands |
dc.contributor |
University of Iceland |
dc.contributor.author |
Ólafsdóttir, Jóna |
dc.contributor.author |
Hrafnsdóttir, Steinunn |
dc.contributor.author |
Orjasniemi, Tarja |
dc.date.accessioned |
2018-10-05T15:39:19Z |
dc.date.available |
2018-10-05T15:39:19Z |
dc.date.issued |
2018-05-29 |
dc.identifier.citation |
Ólafsdóttir, J., Hrafnsdóttir, S., & Orjasniemi, T. (2018). Depression, anxiety, and stress from substance-use disorder among family members in Iceland. Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 35(3), 165-178. doi:10.1177/1455072518766129 |
dc.identifier.issn |
1455-0725 |
dc.identifier.issn |
1458-6126 (eISSN) |
dc.identifier.uri |
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/873 |
dc.description.abstract |
Aims:
This research was designed to explore the extent to which the use of alcohol or drugs by one member of a family affects the psychosocial state of other family members. The study asks whether family members of substance abusers are more likely to report increased depression, anxiety and stress then the general population in Iceland? Are there significant differences between family members; e.g., spouses, parents, adult children and siblings by gender, age, education and income?
Data and methods:
The instrument used for this purpose is the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS), which is designed to measure those three related mental states. It was administered to 143 participants (111 women and 32 men) with ages ranging from 19–70 years on the first day of a four-week group therapy programme for relatives of substance use disorder (SUD) at The Icelandic National Centre for Addiction Treatment (SÁÁ) from August 2015 to April 2016. Thirty participants are adult children of a parent with SUD, 47 are a spouse, 56 are parents of a child with SUD and 10 are siblings. The subscales of the DASS for depression, anxiety, and stress were utilised to examine which family member – parent, child, partner, or sibling – presented the behaviour associated with SUD.
Results:
36% or more of the respondents in all three subscales had average, serious, or very serious depression, anxiety, and/or stress. This is higher than in DASS studies of the general population in Iceland. However, the analysis indicates that it made little difference to the family’s wellbeing which family member was affected by SUD. |
dc.description.sponsorship |
The University of Iceland Research fund |
dc.format.extent |
165-178 |
dc.language.iso |
en |
dc.publisher |
SAGE Publications |
dc.relation.ispartofseries |
Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs;35(3) |
dc.rights |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
dc.subject |
Anxiety |
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DASS |
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Depression |
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Families |
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Family group therapy |
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Stress |
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Substance-use disorder |
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SUD |
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Kvíði |
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Þunglyndi |
dc.subject |
Fjölskyldan |
dc.subject |
Fjölskyldumeðferð |
dc.subject |
Streita |
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Fíkn |
dc.title |
Depression, anxiety, and stress from substance-use disorder among family members in Iceland |
dc.type |
info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
dcterms.license |
Creative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/
licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission
provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/
open-access-at-sage). |
dc.description.version |
Peer Reviewed |
dc.identifier.journal |
Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs |
dc.identifier.doi |
10.1177/1455072518766129 |
dc.contributor.department |
Félagsráðgjafardeild (HÍ) |
dc.contributor.department |
Faculty of Social Work (UI) |
dc.contributor.school |
Félagsvísindasvið (HÍ) |
dc.contributor.school |
School of Social Sciences (UI) |