Effect of Multidisciplinary Program for Relapse Prevention on Self-efficacy of Drug Abstinence, Impulsivity and Suicide Ideation in Substance Addiction Patients** A thesis submitted to the Council of the Graduate School of Kyungpook National University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Nursing in December 2021
Purpose: The prevention of relapse of substance addiction patients and the academic basis for this are presented. Methods: The design of this study is a nonequivalent control group pre test-post test design as a similar experimental study. The subjects of this study were those who agreed to participate in the study among substance addiction patients who were hospitalized in the addiction ward of the National B Hospital located in C-gun, Gyeongnam. 42 people participated in the study, including 21 in the experimental group and 21 in the control group. Preliminary self-report surveys were conducted on general characteristics, drug abstinence self-efficacy, impulsivity, and suicide ideation in the experiment and control group. The study subjects under went 10 sessions of intervention twice a week 5 weeks program. For the collected data, homogeneity test, descriptive statistical analysis, χ2-test, Wilcoxon signed rank test, Mann-Whitney U test, and Cronbach''s α reliability test were performed using the SPSS 24.0 program (IBM Crop., Armonk, NY). Results: First, the experimental group that participated in the multidisciplinary relapse prevention program will have a different change in drug abstinence self-efficacy than the control group who did not participate (U=54.50, p<.001). Second, the experimental group that participated in the multidisciplinary relapse prevention program will have a different change in impulsivity than the control group who did not participate (U=88.00, p<.001). Third, the experimental group that participated in the multidisciplinary relapse prevention program will have a different change in suicide ideation than the control group who did not participate (U=77.50, p<.001). Conclusion: The multi-disciplinary relapse prevention program was confirmed to be an effective nursing intervention method to improve the drug abstinence self-efficacy and reduce impulsivity and suicide ideation of substance addiction patients.