effects of family-centered empowerment model based education program on quality of life in methamphetamine users and their families

conclusions: family-centered empowerment model, easily adapted to methamphetamine users and their families, leads to improved social supports and qol. results: mean scores of qol and social support dimensions changed significantly in two intervention groups (p < 0.0001), but didn’t change in the control group (p > 0.05). also, there was a positive significant relation (p < 0.05) between total social support and all dimensions of qol for all study groups. objectives: this study aimed to evaluate the effects of family-centered empowerment model on social support and qol of methamphetamine users and their families. patients and methods: this study was a randomized clinical trial; individuals were randomly allocated to three groups: a group for educating methamphetamine users in recovery (95 subjects), a group for educating a family member of methamphetamine users in recovery (95 subjects) and a control group (95 subjects). data collecting instruments were standard questionnaires of social support and health-related quality of life (hrqol). data were analyzed using χ2-test, t-test, paired t-test, pearson’s correlation and anova. background: nowadays there are more concerns about drug treatment of methamphetamine abusers whereas quality of life (qol) related supportive psychotherapy is less credited.