The Effectiveness of Life Skills Training on Decreasing Anxiety and Depression of Metamphetamin Abusers who Reffered to Recovery clinics in Tehran (2011)

The purpose of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of life skills training on reducing methamphetamine abusing patients depression and anxiety at the clinics of treatment of drugs at Tehran in 1390. Research method was quasi experimental with experimental and control groups with pre and post test experiments. 30 patients who abused methamphetamine selected by chance Custer sampling and randomly assigned in two groups, each group containing 15 subjects. Beck depression inventory and Cattle anxiety test were used for the assessment of the level of depression and anxiety. Subjects in experimental group received life skills training for twelve 2 hours sessions and subjects in control group didn’t receive any training. The obtained data were analyzed by independent group t and covariance analysis. The results showed that life skills training reduced the depression and anxiety of experimental group subjects and this showed that life skills training was effctive on declining of depression and anxiety in the subjects participated in the research. The results also showed life skills training were more effective on declining anxiety than depression.