title: Health-Related Quality of Life of Young Addict Women in Mashhad, IR Iran.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Quality of life (QoL) stands for to the general well-being of the populations in the societies. Quality of life should not be confused with the concept of standard of living, which is based primarily on income. Instead, standard indicators of the QOL include not only wealth and employment, but also built environment, physical and mental health, education, recreation and leisure time and social belonging.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This study attempted to evaluate the QoL of the young addicted women compared to non-addict controls.
  
  
  METHODS
  This case-control study was conducted on young addict women aged between 16-25 years old using with BREF-WHOQOL questionnaire. The subgroups included vulnerable addicts, non-vulnerable addicts and healthy controls.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The findings of the current study demonstrated that drug abuse led to reduce health-related QoL in all aspects of health compared with control group.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Health-related QoL was lower in all aspects of health compared with control group.
authors: School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, IR Iran.
authors: Mohammad
authors: M
authors: Khajedaluee
authors: School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, IR Iran.
authors: Reza
authors: R
authors: Assadi
authors: School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, IR Iran.
authors: Maliheh
authors: M
authors: Dadgar Moghadam
keywords: Quality of Life; Substance-Related disorders; Vulnerability; Young adult