title: Drug Addiction in Patients With Chronic Schizophrenia and Its Relation With Psychopathology and Impulsiveness.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Using drugs is a common affliction in patients with Schizophrenia affecting their increasing death rate. They have to tolerate longer treatment time and staying in hospital and they further show more violence and their living quality decreases. It also seems that this factor is among the influential factors of unsuccessful results in treating these patients.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Despite all this, there is little data about drug consumption, psychopathology and demographic information in patients with chronic schizophrenia in Iran. This paper reviews the relation between drug consumption and the mentioned qualities in patients afflicted by chronic Schizophrenia.
  
  
  METHODS
  In this cross-sectional study, 100 patients with Schizophrenia were interviewed based on DSM-IV-TR diagnostic parameters and according to a psychiatrist´s views. The severity of psychopathology was evaluated, using PANSS, (SCID-I) DSM-IV and BARRAT.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The results show that in patients with chronic schizophrenia, there is a meaningful relation between cigarette consumption and education, gender, family background and BARRAT. It also has a direct correlation with Attention and Motor. Drug consumption has a meaningful relation with gender and Motor (p<0.05). But it has no relation with BARRAT. Of the variables having a relation with correlation, cigarette and treatment period factors have a predicting effect for drug consumption.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  According to the results, drug and cigarette consumption is high among patients with Chronic Schizophrenia. Common cigarette consumption and its relation with impulsiveness increase, and death rate are the reasons which make us take the needed steps to have these patients quit smoking.
authors.affiliation: . r.ahmadi57@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Somayeh
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shokrgozar
authors.forename: Reza
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ahmadi
authors.forename: Azadeh
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yousefnezhad
authors.forename: Mahbobeh
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Roshandelrad
authors.forename: Termeh
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Khosravi
authors.forename: Masuomeh
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ellahi
authors.forename: Mahdiyeh
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pakdaman
authors.forename: Ameneh
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Eskandari
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017668:Age of Onset; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007175:Impulsive Behavior; D007492:Iran; D008875:Middle Aged; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D012737:Sex Factors; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*