Md Rabiul Islam

The study was conduct on NESARC code book.

The analysis was over NESARC code book using Python.

I wanted to measure the frequency of amphetamine abuse.I made subgroup of people of 40 to 60 ages who used amphetamine.

Then I made the unknown data to new name nan and without this i calculated frequency

                        The study was conducted on csv file of NESARC (National Epidemiological Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions) through python. Point of interest was Amphetamine abuse and it association with major depression and generalized anxiety.

Primarily three question were asked to the whole people (43893) regarding amphetamine abuse/dependence. The findings are described below.

  A random sample of 43893 people were asked the following question, “Is they ever used Amphetamine(S3BQ1A4)?” Of the total number, about 4% choose category 1 which is yes;they used amphetamine, about .76% choose category 9(unknow to it) and majority about 95% choose category 2(NO).

 For the next question they were asked “Amphetamine abuse or dependence in last 12 months(STIM12ABDEP)” about 99% says the didn’t use it(category0),0.007 says the abused amphetamine in last 12 months(category1),about 0.0007%said they are dependent on amphetamine(category2) and about 0.0055% chose category 3(Amphetamine abuse or dependence).

  The next question asked the same people, “Did the used amphetamine in the last 12 months/prior to last 12 months/both time periods(S3BD4Q2B)?”. about 96% said they never used amphetamine in this period or this is unknown to them(BL), about 0.007% choose category 1(use in last 12 months), about 0.36% said they used it before last 12 months(category 2), about 0.04% told they used this drug in both time periods(category 3) and only 0.0002% said they are unknown to it(category 9).

Introduction:

After reviewing the codebook of NESARC (National Epidemiological Survey on Alcohol Related Conditions), a survey in over 43093 U.S. citizens (over the age of 18) designed to determine the magnitude of alcohol use and psychiatric disorders. I found myself particularly interested in Amphetamine use disorder. More specifically I want to observe the patterns of association between Amphetamine overuse and major depression as well as general anxiety disorder diagnosed in the last 12 months.

Research question:

Is amphetamine use associated with major depression and general anxiety disorder diagnoses in the last 12 months?

Hypothesis:

Some studies shows that stress, social illness, body shaming, loneliness may cause to take amphetamine and make dependent upon it. So  major depression significantly correlated to amphetamine use.

NESARC codebook section and variables:

After looking through NESARC codebook, firstly i decided to take into consideration the unique identification number (IDNUM) and the variable (AGE) from background information (SECTION 1) of the sample, in order to make my findings more reliable. Furthermore for my first question topic I chose, from the drug / medicine use section (SECTION 3B), to include information like the frequency of people who ever used amphetamine (S3BQ1A4), as well as the period of this use -last 12 months / prior to last 12 months / both periods- (S3BD4Q2B) and the frequency of it when using the most (S3BD4Q2E). As far as the second topic is concerned, I selected the variable of non-hierarchical major depression diagnosis, in last 12 months (MAJORDEP12) and the variable of non-hierarchical generalized anxiety diagnosis, in last 12 months (GENAXDX12), which are included in the diagnoses section (SECTION 14).

 Reference:

I found many articles relating to my point of interest and found that there is positive and significant correlation between amphetamine use and major depression. I studied paper on Google scholars and other platform also.

  1.https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/003591576806100228