The effect of cognitive-behavioral training on quality of life and aggression among drug addicted prisoners

The life quality improvement of the addicted individuals and restoring them to a desirable psychological level are among the most effective methods for strengthening and empowering the addicted. The study was conducted with the aim of the effect of cognitive-behavioral training on quality of life and aggression among drug addicted prisoners. The participants were 30 addicted prisoners whom are assigned to experimental and control groups, consisting of 15 participants who were selected by the random sampling. Afterwards, the experimental group were trained during a intervention period lasting for 12 sessions and finally both groups were retested. Levine test and multivariate covariance test were used for the analysis. The result of covariance analysis indicated that there is a significant difference between experimental group and control group in the total score of quality of life and aggression and their subscales, suggesting that cognitive-behavioral trainings resulted in a reduction in the aggression score and an increase in the quality of life score in the intervention group compared to the control group. Furthermore, there was a change in the mean scores of aggression and quality of life subscales in the experimental group compared to the control group. The study supported the importance of cognitive-behavioral trainings on improving the quality of life and aggression reduction in the prisoners suffering from addiction.