فاعلية برنامج إرشاد مقترح لتنمية الدافعية للعلاج من الإدمان لدى نزلاء السجن المركزي في سلطنة عمان

Abstract

The phenomenon of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substance abuse is one of the most pressing challenges faced by societies, where the fate of the active addict is mostly either death by overdose or imprisonment. Therefore, there is a need for the inmates to get the guidance and preventive programs to raise their awareness about their problems and methods of treatment. This study aims to create a group counselling program and to investigate its effectiveness in developing the motivation for treatment of addiction among the inmates of the Central Prison in the Sultanate of Oman. The study sample consisted of 32 inmates convicted of drug abuse cases in the Central Prison in the Wilayat of Samail. The sample of the study was divided into two equal groups; the first is the control group (16 inmates) and the other is the experimental group (16 inmates). In order to achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher has created a counselling program to develop the motivation for treatment of addiction in the prison inmates. The program consisted of 16 counselling sessions: each session is (70 – 90) minutes; three sessions a week. The motivation for the treatment of addiction scale prepared by Texas Christian University was used by the researcher after translating and adapting it to the Omani environment. This scale is designed to measure the level of motivation for addiction treatment after the inmate is released from prison. The researcher calculated the means and standard deviations of the scale scores of the motivation for the treatment of addiction for each group before and after the intervention and the follow-up. The contrast analysis test (MANOVA) and T-test were used to verify the statistical significance of the differences in the mean scores of motivation between experimental and control groups, before and after the intervention. The results of the study showed significant differences in the overall score of the scale, and for each dimension of the program in favour of the experimental group. The results also showed that there were no statistically significant differences in the experimental group in the post and the follow-up results, which indicates the continued effectiveness of the counseling program with an increase in the mean scores gained by the members of the experimental group in the post-measurement after recognition of the problem. Such result indicates the inmate's insight into his problem and awareness of the seriousness of the next stage if there is no real intervention to solve it.