1- MSc of Nursing, Faculty Member of Torbate Heydariyeh University, Torbate Heydariyeh Medical Branch, Torbate Heydariyeh, Iran , ghodratita171@yahoo.com 2- MSc of Nursing, Faculty Member of Islamic Azad University, Tehran Medical Branch, Tehran, Iran 3- MA of Psychology, Faculty Member of Islamic Azad University, Tehran Medical Branch, Tehran, Iran 4- PhD of Statistics, Faculty Member of Islamic Azad University, Tehran Medical Branch, Tehran, Iran
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Background: Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meetings are used to increase quit time of addict persons after the detoxification. Quit addiction program contains of 97% non-drug treatment and 3% drug treatment. The aim of this study was to compare participating and non-participating individuals continue Addiction Narcotics Anonymous meetings.
Materials and Methods: This descriptive-comparative study was performed on 300 individuals participated in the meetings of Narcotics Anonymous and non-participating provider refers to the Saman rehabilitation clinic, Mashhad, Iran. Simple random sampling was used to select addict persons. A questionnaire, including demographic information and the continuity of quit time, were used. Results: The highest continuity quit time of addiction were in 6-12 months (38%) in participant of NA and 3-6 months (45%) in non-participant (p<0.002). and lowest in those participants leave continuity de rajlsat 24-36 months (4%) and non-participating 18-24 months (6/66%). Conclusion: This study showed that participating in the meetings of Narcotics Anonymous increases the duration of the time of quit addiction.
Ghodrati Torbati A, Sahbaei F, Nabavi S J, Zare M. Comparing continuity quit addiction time in participant persons and non participant persons in Narcotics Anonymous in City of Mashhad in 2012. MEDICAL SCIENCES 2013; 23 (3) :201-205 URL: http://tmuj.iautmu.ac.ir/article-1-707-en.html