Artemisa Gogollari, Sharon Mitchell, Sissel Guttormsen
Swiss medical schools' experiences with online teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic in light of international experiences
BMC medical education
substance use disorder major public health concern india understanding social support among persons abstaining substance use would help promoting longterm abstinence examine perceived social support among abstinent individuals substance use disorder crosssectional study design used sixty subjects attending followup service selected consecutively outpatient specialty clinic addiction medicine tertiary care teaching hospital bangalore persons suds age 1860 years minimum abstinence period three months included exploratory analysis descriptive statistics spearmen correlation used study approved institute ethics committee mean age respondents 396 sd 95 years majority 60 peer pressure majority 60 diagnosis alcohol dependence 80 past history abstinence 40 maintaining abstinence three six months majority 60 never hospitalized mean score perceived social support among persons abstaining 90 days 6148 1350 indicating high perceived social support perceived social support higher among persons abstaining substance use three months