Ganji Forozan, Khani Farzad, Karimi Zahra, Rabiei Leili
Department of Community Medicine, School of Medicine, Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Shahrekord University of Medical Science, Shahrekord, Iran.
General Health Department, Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Shahrekord University of Medical Science, Sharekord, Iran.
J Educ Health Promot. 2022 Feb 26;11:48. doi: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_107_21. eCollection 2022.
Students on campus are exposed to drug abuse and mental health disorders due to various challenges and motivating factors. This issue requires attention to interventions based on coping skills training. The present study was conducted with the aim to investigate the effect of an assertiveness program on the drug use tendency, mental health, and quality of life in clinical students of Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences in 2020.
This is a quasi-experimental study. Seventy clinical students (nursing, midwifery, and intern students) attending Ayatollah Kashani and Hajar teaching hospitals of Shahrekord were included into the study and randomly assigned into an intervention group and a control group. The assertiveness training program was implemented for eight 1-h sessions (one session per week for 2 months) for the intervention group, while the control group received no programs. Both study groups completed drug tendency questionnaire, depression, anxiety and stress scale, and quality of life questionnaire in pretest, posttest, and 2-month follow-up. The data were analyzed using SPSS software (v22), analysis of variance repeated measures, and -test.
The mean scores of drug use tendency ( = 0.26), stress ( = 0.31), anxiety ( = 0.29), depression ( = 0.43), and quality of life ( = 0.33) showed no statistically significant difference between the intervention and control groups in the pretest, but the scores of the drug use tendency, stress, anxiety, and depression were statistically lower and the score of quality of life was statistically higher than that of the control group in the posttest and 2-month follow-up ( < 0.05).
The findings of the study showed that assertiveness skill training as a preventive program can reduce the students' tendency to addiction and improve their mental health and quality of life. Considering the effectiveness of the program, planners and policymakers can use it to plan for reducing the youth tendency to drugs.
由于各种挑战和驱动因素,校园中的学生面临药物滥用和心理健康问题。这个问题需要关注基于应对技能培训的干预措施。本研究旨在调查2020年设拉子医科大学临床学生中自信训练计划对药物使用倾向、心理健康和生活质量的影响。
这是一项准实验研究。纳入了设拉子阿亚图拉·卡沙尼和哈贾尔教学医院的70名临床学生(护理、助产和实习学生),并将他们随机分为干预组和对照组。干预组接受了为期8周、每周1小时的自信训练计划(共2个月),而对照组未接受任何计划。两个研究组在预测试、后测试和2个月随访时都完成了药物倾向问卷、抑郁、焦虑和压力量表以及生活质量问卷。数据使用SPSS软件(v22)、重复测量方差分析和t检验进行分析。
在预测试中,干预组和对照组在药物使用倾向(P = 0.26)、压力(P = 0.31)、焦虑(P = 0.29)、抑郁(P = 0.43)和生活质量(P = 0.33)的平均得分上没有统计学显著差异,但在测试后和2个月随访中,干预组的药物使用倾向、压力、焦虑和抑郁得分在统计学上低于对照组,生活质量得分在统计学上高于对照组(P < 0.05)。
研究结果表明,自信技能培训作为一种预防计划可以降低学生的成瘾倾向,改善他们的心理健康和生活质量。考虑到该计划的有效性,规划者和政策制定者可以利用它来规划减少青少年药物倾向的措施。