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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
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Addict women face more mental problems than healthy women, and the issue is less attended. Applying inexpensive, easily accessible preventive measures like aerobic training can improve their mental health. The present study was to investigate the effect of aerobic training on the mental health of addict women in the central prison of Zahedan, Iran. This experimental study involved the addict women in the central prison of Zahedan, Iran in 2008. Thirty addict women were randomly selected and assigned into two equal groups [15 controls and 15 experimental]. The Goldberg General Health Questionnaire [GHQ 28] and Demographic Characteristics Questionnaire were used for Data collection. The experimental group was trained for 8 weeks, three weekly sessions of 45 minutes. Both groups completed the questionnaires before and after the 8-week training for the evaluation of their mental health status. The data were analyzed in SPSS 15 using descriptive statistics [frequency, mean and standard deviation] as well as the dependent and independent t-test. Results showed that after eight weeks of aerobic training program, symptoms significantly improved: physical symptoms [from 12.20 +/- 6.37 to 4/ +/- 53 +/- 2/83], anxiety [from 14.47 +/- 4.50 to 4.33 +/- 2.13], depression [from 11.67 +/- 6.78 to 3.60 +/- 3.25] and mental health [from 48.20 +/- 15.50 to 18.87 +/- 6.71] [p