Abstract:

Objective: The purpose of this study was to explore quality of life (QOL) and related factors in heroin addicts enforcing
detoxification (HAED). Methods: 350 cases of heroin addicts in Labor Education Station of Dali Prefecture were surveyed using multistage
stratified cluster sampling method and quality of life was assessed by the WHOQOL-BREF. Results: Quality of life (QOL) for the
heroin addicts enforcing detoxification was (78.56±14.78), and also each domain score was (57.07±14.68), (60.56±19.20), (56.34±
15.49) and (51.45±18.44) for physical, psychological, social relationships, and environmental function, respectively. The QOL score of
life in physical, psychological and environmental domains in inject drugs group were higher than smoking group (P < 0.05); time of
drug addiction is a vital factor to reduce the score of QOL for HAED in all domains. QOL of HAED was negative associated with age,
years with heroin use and way of injection heroin with other use using multiple regression models. Conclusion: It was vital to take
comprehensive measures for physical and psychological aspects to improve quality of life of the drug a heroin addicts based on their
characteristic of heroin use addicts．

Key words: heroin addicts, quality of life, related factors, multiple regression analysis