ABSTRACT
Background and purpose: Addiction is a dependence on the drug that makes him the physical and psychological dependence on drugs and will affect all his personal and social behavior and has been attacked as an important social pathology of human society. Therefore, the aim of this study was Effect of a given exercise program on quality of life and self steam of addicts
Methods and materials: The study was quasi-experimental. Between drug addiction in the center of the 60 Congress, 60 of whom were purposefully selected and divided into two groups. The first group, There were 30 people after detoxification and drug treatments did not participate in exercise programs and advice received, the second Group, There were 30 people on drug treatment and counseling after detoxification were involved in sports programs. In two pre-test and post test subjects responded to questionnaires about quality of life and self steam. Data analysis was performed using the dependent and independent T test whit Using software SPSS16 at significant level [p<0.05]
Results: The groups were not significantly different from each other in pre-test, quality of life [p=0/87, t= 2/011] and self steam [p=0/49, t=0/65] but in the post-test groups with exercise training significantly with quality of life [p=0/002, t=-3/27] and self steam [p=0/007, t= -2/81] were better than the control group. It was observed that two groups of pre-test to post-test significantly [p<0/001] in terms of quality of life and self steam had improved
Conclusion: The results showed that the drug addicts who have used a combination of methods, such as regular exercise of moderate intensity, Had a greater improvement in quality of life and self steam