Table 1.
Psychopathological severity in Heroin Use Disorder (HUD) patients and obese individuals.
| Variable | HUD Patients N = 972 | Obese Individuals N = 106 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M ± sd | M ± sd | t | p | ||
| Total SCL-90 severity | 89.85 ± 53.7 | 158.19 ± 43.5 | −12.65 | <0.001 | |
| Global Severity Index | 1.00 ± 0.6 | 1.76 ± 0.5 | −12.56 | <0.001 | |
| PST, number of | 48.79 ± 18.5 | 66.18 ± 15.2 | −9.31 | <0.001 | |
| PSDI severity | 1.73 ± 0.5 | 2.39 ± 0.3 | −12.89 | <0.001 | |
| Psychopathological dimensions | DF | ||||
| 1-Worthlessness-Being Trapped | 1.22 ± 0.8 | 2.00 ± 0.5 | −10.42 | <0.001 | |
| 2-Somatic Symptoms | 1.29 ± 0.8 | 1.87 ± 0.7 | −7.93 | <0.001 | |
| 3-Sensitivity-Psychoticism | 0.83 ± 0.6 | 1.46 ± 0.5 | −9.62 | <0.001 | |
| 4-Panic Anxiety | 0.46 ± 0.6 | 1.25 ± 0.8 | −12.55 | <0.001 | 0.63 |
| 5-Violence-Suicide | 0.98 ± 0.7 | 1.93 ± 0.7 | −12.51 | <0.001 | 0.62 |
| Centroids | −0.36 | 0.87 | |||
HUD = Heroin Use Disorder; PST = positively rated items (number of); PSDI = positive symptom distress index; DF = Discriminant Function; Statistics: Lambda = 0.84; F = 67.95: p = <0.001; 95.7% of HUD patients were confirmed; 70.8% of obese individuals were re-classified as HUD patients.