{"title":"The Effectiveness of Family-Based Treatment on Craving in Girl Students with Substance Abuse","authors":"Zabihollah Abbaspour, Z. Ghanbari","doi":"10.5812/IJHRBA.103848","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Background: Substance abuse and addiction are serious problems all around the world. Increased substance use tendency in adolescents has attracted the researchers' and therapists' attention. Objectives: The current study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of family-based treatment on craving in girl students with substance abuse. Patients and Methods: In this multiple baseline experimental single case study, four families and their girl adolescents who were engaged in substance abuse were selected using the purposive sampling technique. family-based treatment (FBT) was performed in three phases of baseline, intervention, and follow-up. Data were collected using the Craving Beliefs Questionnaire (CBQ). The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics methods. Results: This study demonstrated that FBT could significantly decrease the craving, 40.08% improvements. Conclusions: FBT can be considered as an effective strategy for changing the dysfunctional cycle of the family system and decreasing substance use tendency in adolescents.","PeriodicalId":53452,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of High Risk Behaviors and Addiction","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Journal of High Risk Behaviors and Addiction","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5812/IJHRBA.103848","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Medicine","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Background: Substance abuse and addiction are serious problems all around the world. Increased substance use tendency in adolescents has attracted the researchers' and therapists' attention. Objectives: The current study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of family-based treatment on craving in girl students with substance abuse. Patients and Methods: In this multiple baseline experimental single case study, four families and their girl adolescents who were engaged in substance abuse were selected using the purposive sampling technique. family-based treatment (FBT) was performed in three phases of baseline, intervention, and follow-up. Data were collected using the Craving Beliefs Questionnaire (CBQ). The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics methods. Results: This study demonstrated that FBT could significantly decrease the craving, 40.08% improvements. Conclusions: FBT can be considered as an effective strategy for changing the dysfunctional cycle of the family system and decreasing substance use tendency in adolescents.
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International Journal of High Risk Behaviors and Addiction is a clinical journal which is informative to all fields related to the high risk behaviors, addiction, including smoking, alcohol consumption and substance abuse, unsafe sexual behavior, obesity and unhealthy eating habits, physical inactivity, and violence, suicidal behavior, and self-injurious behaviors. International Journal of High Risk Behaviors and Addiction is an authentic clinical journal which its content is devoted to the particular compilation of the latest worldwide and interdisciplinary approach and findings including original manuscripts, meta-analyses and reviews, health economic papers, debates, and consensus statements of the clinical relevance of Risky behaviors and addiction. In addition, consensus evidential reports not only highlight the new observations, original research and results accompanied by innovative treatments and all the other relevant topics but also include highlighting disease mechanisms or important clinical observations and letters on articles published in this journal.
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