The Effectiveness of education of healthy lifestyle on attitudes toward the narcotic use among workers

Workers are considered as the society’s productive force, and in a situation in which comprehensive development is considered as an important priority of the country, the need for health care is doubled.this study was carried out aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of education healthy lifestyle on the attitude toward narcotic use among workers. The study is considered as a semi-experimental research with pre-test, post-test and control group. The statistical population included formal and informal workers employed at the Assaluyeh Oil & Gas Engineering Company in 2017. After the general announcement of holding training course, 60 applicants completed a questionnaire of attitude towards narcotic use using convenience sampling method voluntarily, then 30 of them who received higher scores and had inclusion criteria were selected purposefully and replaced by simple random sampling in two groups of experimental and control (each group included 15 people). Finally, the experimental group were trained in ten two-hour sessions after receiving 5 healthy lifestyle education packages (including: 1. Health and Life , Safety in life; 2. Principles of healthy nutrition; physical activity; 3. Avoiding cigarette and hubble-bubble; avoiding drug and alcohol; 4. Mental health; spiritual health; 5. Social health and social components of health). During this period, any intervention wasn’t received by the control group. After the experimental group completed the training course, the same questionnaire was implemented on subjects as a post-test. Multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) and Analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used to analyze the hypotheses. According to the results, healthy lifestyle education has a significant effect on reducing the three dimensions of cognitive beliefs, emotions and readiness for addiction, as well as general attitude towards addiction in the experimental group (p <0.05). Healthy lifestyle education can increase the negative attitude toward addiction among workers. Therefore, implementation of comprehensive and integrated interventions such as health promotion at workplace and employee assistance programs is recommended in order to reduce addiction in workplaces.