Effective of New Normal Rehabilitation Therapy for Outpatient Drug Addicts, Mukdahan Hospital

Abstract

This prospective descriptive study aimed to study the results of factors that were related to new outpatient rehabilitation therapy for drug addicts at Mukdahan Hospital, Mukdahan Province, Thailand. A set of 217 people was selected by systematic random sampling technique from 473 populations. Data weas collected by questionnaire to provide information on drug rehabilitation treatment recipients, the questionnaire was used for screening and referring drug user patients for treatment (V.2) in Ministry of Public Health system. Data analysis was performed by descriptive and Chi square test at the significance level of 0.05. The results showed that the majority of samples were male (91.2%). aged 21 - 30 years (27.7%). The level of drug use was at addiction level. After treatment, 28.1% of the samples were able to stop taking all types of drugs for more than 6 months and success factors observed in the new normal rehabilitation therapy program for outpatient drug addicts of Mukdahan hospital were age, type of drug first used, cause of first drug use, acceptance for rehabilitation treatment, and the underlying reason for receiving the rehabilitation treatment (p<0.05) .