Effectiveness of group training with an emphasis transactional analysis approach to improving sleep quality and its components of methadone – treated men

One of the issues that should be considered for methadone-treated patients is the quality of sleep in these patients. But the key question is, does the behavioral analysis approach affect the sleep quality of methadone-treated patients?

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of group training on behavioral analysis on improving sleep quality and its components in male patients treated with methadone.

The study was a quasi-experimental study with pre-test, post-test and follow-up and control group. The statistical population of this study consisted of all patients treated with methadone in one of Tehran's drug abuse treatment centers in 2015-2016. 40 patients were selected by convenience sampling method and randomly divided into experimental and control groups. (20 people) were replaced. The tools are: Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Questionnaire (Daniel J. Bayes et al., 1989) and Group Training Protocol on Mutual Behavior Analysis (Attadakht, Jafarian Dehkordi, Bashirpour & Narimani, 2015). Data were analyzed using covariance analysis test.

Interaction analysis approach had a significant effect on improving sleep quality of patients treated with methadone (P<0/05).

Mutation therapy can be used to improve sleep quality of patients treated with methadone.