The effect of methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) on the quality of life of prisoners under support of Tehran Province (2009)

Context and Methadone maintenance treatment may improve the different health indices of supported individuals particularly in the state prisons, therefore the objective of this study is investigating the effect of methadone maintenance treatment on the quality of life of prisoners supported by Tehran Province in 2009. This study is descriptive analytical and as respect to achieving the goals is applied which has been applied on two test and control groups in 2009. For collecting the data, demographic data and quality of life questionnaires were used. Statistical analysis of collected data has been provided aiding SPSS (xp) XIII software and by means of descriptive and analytical statistics methods. Out of 250 answerers in test group, 27 persons (10.8%) were in Evin prison, 135 persons (54% in Ghezelhesar prison and 88 persons (35.2%) in Rajaeeshahr prison. The significance level of quality of life aspects including “using the loss reduction services and plans”, “salary problems solutions”, “improvement of familial relationships”, “self-improvement solutions”, “negative sensations inhibiting solutions”, “health problems confronting solutions” and “addiction problems confronting solutions” were respectively equal to 0.012, 0.009, 0.021m 0.045, 0.037, 0.053 and 0.001. In general, executing methadone maintenance treatment plan for the prisoners supported by this plan has improved the quality of their lives’ index and by applying more appropriate mechanisms may extend the execution of this plan allover the world and reduction of relative risky diseases in the prison and society.