The effectiveness of treatment based on improving the quality of life on meaning in life in people who quit drugs

Esa Jafari¹ Mehdi Sahranovard² Ali Salmani³

1) Associate professor of psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran.
2) Master of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University Khalkhal Branch, Khakhal, Iran.
3) Master of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Mohaghegh Ardabili University.

IOI Code : XDKA-GZCZG
Publication : First National Student Scientific Conference on Psychology(cpssuma.ir)
Abstract :
    The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of treatment based on improving quality of life on meaning in life in substance abusers. The research method was experimental and with pre-test design, post-test with control group. The statistical population of the present study was all substance abusers in Azadi Addiction Treatment Center in Ardabil in 2016-2017. Through available sampling method, 40 people were selected and randomly assigned to two experimental groups (20 people) and control group (20 people). Subjects were assessed using the Meaning in Life Questionnaire (MLQ) in two stages of pre-test and post-test. Therefore, for the experimental group, 8 sessions of 90-minute treatment based on improving the quality of life were performed and for the control group, no intervention was performed. Analysis of covariance was used to analyze the results. The results showed that treatment based on improving the quality of life increased the meaning of burnout in people who left the drug in the experimental group in the post-test phase. The results of this study showed that treatment based on improving the quality of life can be effective in increasing the amount of meaning in life in people who quit drugs.

Keywords : treatment based on improving quality of life meaning of life people quitting drugs