Abstract

Globally, about 50% of individuals with psychosis have been linked with substance induced psychosis. Psychosis is known
to be a serious mental condition that involves the person's losing contact with reality, to a greater or lesser extent, and
is most often associated with certain mental illnesses like schizophrenia hence it is a common substance induced mental
illnesses that occur as a result of use of drugs with patients presenting with positive and negative symptoms that reveal
psychosis after prolonged use of the drugs. The main purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of substance
induced psychosis and commonly abuse drugs among admitted patients in psychiatric unit of Kampala international
university teaching hospital. The study design was a retrospective study were all patient’s files admitted in psychiatric
hospital of Kampala International University record was observed using a predefined structure questionnaire. A total of
45 files were collected by Simple random sampling method. Data collected were identified by the use of a code number.
Analysis of data was done with Microsoft excel 2010 and analyzed using statistical packaging for social scientists (SPSS)
version 17. Data was presented in charts and tables. Out of 40 patients’ files, 87.5% were males, 12.5% were females, and
57.5% live in rural area, 42.5% live in town, 42.5% were none educated, 37.5 ended in primary, 15% ended in secondary
and 5% were tertiary graduates. In this study, the commonly abused substances were alcohol, cigarettes, multiple drugs
and marijuana. The ratio of patients admitted with psychosis is higher in men than in females as revealed by this study.
The socio-economic factors influencing patients admitted due to substance abuse in this study include; low level of
education and high rates of unemployment. In this study the common abused substances, alcohol being highly abuse
followed by cigarettes then those multiple and finally marijuana. The ratio of patients admitted with psychosis is higher
in men as revealed by this study. The socio-economic factors influencing patients admitted due to substance abuse in this
study include; low level of education, high rates of unemployment.