The Effectiveness of Implementing Motivational Group Interview on Self- Efficacy, Impulsivity and Emotional Regulation on Patients with Methadone Maintenance Treatment

The current research has been done for the purpose of reviewing The efficacy of implementing group motivational interview on self-efficacy, impulsivity and emotion regulation of Sanandaj’s male regulation of patient’s patients with methadone maintenance treatment. The study s design is quasi-experimental pre and past-test type with control group. The sampling method was convenience method and using it 30 of the people who resort to Sanandaj s (Iran) rehabilitation centers were picked and randomly placed in control and experimental groups (15 men each groups). Then Grass and John s emotion regulation scale (2003), Sherer s general self-efficacy (1986) and Barrat s impulsivity (1995) scales were filled by the two groups. The experimental group went under 8 sessions of group motivational interview and after the treatment period the scales had been filled by the groups again. The results had been analyzed with the twenty-second version of SPSS .the statistical method was consist of descriptive statistics(including mean, standard deviation, the scores minimum and maximum) and inferential statistics. The results showed that there is a magnificent difference between self-efficacy, impulsivity and emotion regulation pre and past-test scores of the two groups patients (p> 0/05), the results showed that group motivational interview can be used as an useful treatment in order to decrease substance abusers impulsivity and increase their self-efficacy and emotion regulation

Keywords:

Motivational Interview , Self-Efficacy , Impulsivity , Emotion Regulation , Substance Abuse