Men’s opiate-derived drug abuse and psychopathology in their wives: a systematic review and meta-analysis

• Published in: Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) Vol. 43; no. 3; pp. 2229 - 2237
• Main Authors: Ramezani, Esmaeil, Bougar, Mojtaba Rahimian, Khodarahimi, Siamak, Forghani, Mohammad Damavandi, Mazraeh, Nasrollah
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.01.2024; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Anxiety; Behavioral Science and Psychology; Bias; Causality; Drug abuse; Drug use; Fear & phobias; Mental depression; Mental disorders; Mental health; Meta-analysis; Narcotics; Psychology; Psychopathology; Social Sciences; Software; Stress; Substance use disorder; Systematic review; Wives; Wives; Men’s Substance Use Disorders; Psychopathology; Opiate-derived drugs
• ISSN: 1046-1310; 1936-4733
• DOI: 10.1007/s12144-023-04412-8

This study investigated the effect of men’s substance use disorders (SUD) to opiate-derived drugs on the psychopathology of their wives in Iran. This study was performed according to known reporting guidelines for the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA). Information about the study design, participants, sampling method, context, mean, standard deviation, and effect size from each study are extracted and tailored to this review. Also, covidence systematic review software is used in this study. The present study identified 405 records, of which 9 studies with 2533 participants were included for meta-analysis. The results showed that addicted men’s wives in comparison with non-addicted men’s wives had an increased risk of depression, generalized anxiety, specific phobia, interpersonal sensitivity and communication problems, obsessive-compulsive, somatization, hostility and aggression, paranoid thoughts, psychoticism, social dysfunction. Overall, husbands’ SUD to opiate-derived drugs results in the incidence of psychopathology in their wives.