Psychosocial program development to reduce or stop drinking for Patient with Alcohol use disorder

Abstract

This study was a research and development (R&D). The objectives for develop and evaluate the effectiveness of Psychosocial program development to reduce or stop drinking for Patient with Alcohol use disorder. Two major steps were involved including 1) developing the program and 2) testing the effectiveness of the program developed. The subjects composed of two groups relevant to each step of the study which were 1) The experts group comprising of 4 nurses, 2 advanced practice nurses, 2 experts, 4 caregivers, and 4 patients for developing the program, and 2) The 60 Alcohol use disorder for testing the effectiveness of the program developed. For the 2^nd step, subjects were randomly assigned into experimental and control groups, 30 subjects for each group. The research instruments were as follows; 1) Psychosocial program to reduce or stop drinking  for Patient with Alcohol use disorder with IOC of .80, 2 The Alcohol Time-line Follow-Back  Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and repeated measures ANOVA.

             Results to 1) Psychosocial program to reduce or stop drinking for Patient with Alcohol use disorder consisted of 8 sessions including learning about effects of alcohol drinking, addiction pathway, behavioral chain, challenged positive thought, high-risk situation and caving with mechanism for negative feelings, relapse prevention, negative sentence skill, goal setting and lifestyle. 2) There were significantly different in mean scores of anger expression between the experimental and control group  ).  There were significantly different in mean scores of lower percent of heavy drinking day  better than control group at 1 month 2 month and 3 months after discharge (F _3,174= 98.765, p=<.01). In addition, results from analysis of variance on mean scores of revealed significant interaction effect between group and time (F_3,174 = 413.723, p=<.01). There were significantly different in mean scores of lower percent of abstinent days than control group at 1 month 2 month and 3 months after discharge (F _3,174= 64.017, p=<.01 ). There were significantly different in mean scores of well-being between the experimental and control (F _3,174 = 413.72 , p=<.01)