Effective of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness for Resilience Quotient of Methamphetamine Use Disorders

Abstract

The major cause of the relapsed problem in patients with amphetamine use disorder (AUD) was an individual factor relating to inability to increase their resilience quotient (RQ) for encountering with situation risking to relapse. The empirical evidence showed that cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and mindfulness (MF) were one method helping the patient to learn and develop their RQ and increasing their intention to prevent drug relapse. This study aimed to compare the RQ and the intention to prevent the drug relapse between two groups receiving different treatments. It was conducted as a quasi-experimental research at Princess Mother National Institute on Drug Abuse Treatment, Department of Medical Service. The experiment group was rehabbed by CBT together with MF, and routine treatment; whilst routine treatment was provided for the control. The samples were inpatients with MF who met the determined criteria and were being treated in the rehabilitation stage. The total participants were 116. Five people quitted during the experimental phase. Eventually, there were 111 people left in the study. The experiment was proceeded in the controls before conducting in the other. The research instruments consist of two sets: the experimental tools (CBT and MF) and data collection tools (the RQ questionnaire and questionnaire on intention to prevent the drug relapse). The qualities of the questionnaires were validated by five experts. The reliability coefficients the questionnaires were 0.80 and 0.86. T–test, percentage, mean and SD were applied for data analysis. The result indicated that the score of the RQ and intention to prevent drug relapse in experimental group was higher than the controls but was not statistic significant. The reason was that some parts of idea and activities of the routine programme was similar to those of the developed programme.