Effect of self-awareness training program on 5 factors of mindfulness and stress to patients with amphetamine use disorder

Abstract

Background: Substance-abuse relapse rate is increasing every year. One of the reasons is the lack of self-efficacy that self-awareness training is another way to promote awareness of self-efficacy.

Objective: To investigate the effects of self-awareness training program on 40 patients with amphetamine use disorder who received treatment at the Princess Mother National Institute on Drug Abuse Treatment.

Methods: The program including 2 weeks, consists of 4 sessions:

1) Observing the body’s reactions;

2) Emotional and Thinking training;

3) Awareness in daily life activities;

4) Longterm lifestyle planning through looking for and appreciate the value of everyone. Using FFMQSF
and ST5 to measure self-awareness and stress.

Results: Participants had a higher self-awareness score both in the overall and each 5 compound factors of mindfulness including non-reactivity to inner experience, observing, acting with awareness, describing, non-judging of inner experience while the stress score was reduced. The statistical significance at 0.05 was 0.001, 0.049, 0.113, 0.037, 0.035, 0.281, 0.008 respectively.

Conclusion: The program can improve self-awareness and relieve stress for patients with amphetamine use disorder. They were shown as the increased FFMQ-SF score and the decreased ST5 score.