Study on Efficacy of Group Motivational Interviewing in Reducing Impulsivity among Drug Users on Methadone Treatment

Introduction: motivational interviewing techniques to manipulate and extract of patients' good behavior in order achieve to their better health behavior changes. Materials and Methods: The type of research used in this quasi-experimental, pre-test and post-test in done by control group. The statistics obtained from the population the population consists of all individuals associated with drug addiction treatment center in the city of Yazd, using purpose sampling methods were employed. . Therefore, ۴۰ patients in methadone treatment were randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups, and the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (۲۰۰۴) was used. Motivational interviewing program administered to experimental group for ۶ sessions of ۹۰ minutes. At the end of the training period, both groups were assessed again. Data were analyzed using SPSS statistical software. Results: T-test results showed that impulsivity is a significant difference between experimental and control groups. Conclusion: The results of this study can be concluded that group motivational interviewing in reducing drug addiction and impulsive highly effective drug-dependent individuals.

Keywords:

Motivational interviewing , Impulsivity , Methadone , Treatment outcome , Motivational interviewing , Impulsivity , Methadone , Treatment outcome