Volume 20 No 7 (2022)
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The impact of Drop in center services on homeless drug users' quality of life, reduction of dangerous behaviours, and improvement of emotional regulation
Leila Razeghian Jahormi, Saeed Mokhtari Masoumi Alamdarloo, Mohammad Javad Ebrahimi Asmanjerdi, Maryam Khoshroo,Safora Sadeghi Mazidi
Abstract
The purpose of the current study was to examine the impact of Drop in center services on reducing risky behaviors, improving quality of life, and emotional regulation of homeless druggers. The statistical population consists of all homless addicts in Shiraz who were chosen at random sampeling. Sampels in 2 groups were100 service recipients from Drop incenters, and 100 people of homeless addicts who do not have access to these facilities..Additionally, they were subjected to tests by Gross and John emotion regulation tests, Rajaei and Shafiei high-risk behavior tests, and Mayer and Sherborn quality of life tests. The questionnaires' validity and reliability have been rated favorably.After collecting the questionnaires with SPSS 26, they were analyzed at two descriptive and inferential statistics.The results of the multivariate variance analysisis showed that services of Drop centers were effective in reducinghigh-risk behaviors and improving the quality of life for homeless drug users, but it did not have a significanteffect on their emotional regulation.
Keywords
Drop in center, reducing addiction harm, quality of life, high-risk behaviors, emotion regulation, homeless drug users
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