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Salud mental
Print version ISSN 0185-3325
Abstract
ALONSO-MATIAS, Lizeth; REYES-ZAMORANO, Ernesto and GONZALEZ-OLVERA, Jorge J.. Cognitive and clinic profile of volatile substance users. Salud Ment [online]. 2020, vol.43, n.4, pp.167-174. Epub Nov 09, 2020. ISSN 0185-3325. https://doi.org/10.17711/sm.0185-3325.2020.023.
Introduction
Inhalant use disorder has increased in spite of its adverse medical consequences. Due to the inherent difficulties of working with this population, so far there has been no quantifiable clinical evidence of the cognitive characteristics of inhalants users in early withdrawal and the clinic effect of consumption time.
Objective
To evaluate the clinical and cognitive performance of inhalant users and the clinic effects of consumption time.
Method
A cross-sectional study in which 28 adult users of inhalants were included, divided in two groups according to their consumption time: less than or greater than seven years. They were all evaluated in terms of clinical and neuropsychological values.
Results
Consumers of inhalant showed presence of craving (M = 479.14, SD = 213.51), altered frontal behavior before (M = 119.18, SD = 29.53) and now (M = 130, SD = 33.03), sleeping problems (M = 8.93, SD = 3.4), and cognitive difficulties (inhibitory control, planning, decision-making, working memory, verbal fluency, and cognitive flexibility); all these tasks were statistically significant (p = < .05).
Discussion and conclusion
Executive functioning is impaired with inhalant use disorder; these alterations increase with withdrawal and craving and changes remain independent from the use time.
Keywords : Cognition; screening; craving; inhalants; addiction.