The role of Exercise on preventing of addiction among adolescents and youth in Jahrom city

Background and Aim : Addiction is a social illness that has physical and mental complications. Exercise decreases the risk of addiction whose mechanisms are not clearly understood yet. The aim of present study designed the role of Exercise on addiction and health-risk behaviors among adolescents and youth in Jahrom cityMethods : This cross-sectional study, with a sample size of 395 adolescents and young between 24-15 years old of Jahrom’s households was accomplished in a multi-stage cluster sampling based on postal areas. Among the study population ,108(27.3%) were men and 280(709%) were women. Methods and tools for data collection were questionnaires containing demographic information, drugs usage and sports of information including: culb,s member, the rate and kind of physical activity . Data were scrutinized by using descriptive statistics and then were analyzed by using Chi –Two, Fisher and correlation coefficients.Results : The results indicated that, at least 44% of subjects had used drugs. There were significant reverse relationships between substance use during past 30 days and education(P<0.001). In additionally, Exercise and participating in sports club s can reduce drug-seeking behavior and the risk of addictive drug (p<0.009).There were no significant relationships between sex and substance usage.Conclusion : These finding indicated that ,Exercise decreases the risk of addiction that can be induced by increase of serotonin neurotransmitters in brain.

Keywords:

Exercise , addiction , adolescents , youth , Jahrom city