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Effect of Psycho-educational Nursing Program on Social Adjustment and Selfesteem among Substance Abusers

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Substance abuse is one of the most important social deviations, which is foundation of many
social damages and problems at the community level. Every part of the substance abuser's life as
social life, family life, work productivity, physical health and personal relationships is affected.
Aim: The aim of the present study was to determine the effect of psycho-educational nursing
program on social adjustment and self-esteem among substance abusers. Design: A quasiexperimental design (pre and posttest) was used to achieve the aim of the study. Setting: This study
was conducted at the outpatient clinics for addiction at the Psychiatric Mental Health Hospital in
Benha City, Qalubia Governorate, which is affiliated to General Secretariat of Mental Health in
Egypt. Subject: A convenience sample of 40 substance abusers was included from the above setting
for conduction of this study. Tools: Three tools were used for data collection. Tool 1- structured
interview questionnaire was used to collect data about socio demographic and clinical
characteristics of the studied sample. Tool 2- Social Adjustment scale (SAS) to assess social
adjustment of different life domains among the studied sample. Tool 3- Self-esteem scale (SES)
was used to assess self-esteem among the studied sample. Results: There was a highly statistically
significant improvement in total score of social adjustment and total score of self-esteem between
pre and post implementation of the program. Conclusion: The study demonstrated that psychoeducational nursing program had a positive effect on enhancement of social adjustment and selfesteem among substance abusers. Recommendations: A psycho educational program should be
given for all substance abusers based on a treatment protocol during their hospitalization to enhance
their self-esteem and social adjustment.

DOI

10.21608/jnsbu.2020.159425

Keywords

Substance abuse, social adjustment, Self-esteem, psycho-educational nursing program

Authors

First Name

Shimaa

Last Name

Elsayed

MiddleName

Salah

Affiliation

psychiatric and mental health nursing, Benha University, Egypt

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First Name

Omayma

Last Name

Othman

MiddleName

Abu Bakr

Affiliation

psychiatric & mental health nursing, Ain Shams University, Egypt

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First Name

Maaly

Last Name

El Malky

MiddleName

Ibrahim

Affiliation

psychiatric & mental health nursing El-Menoufia University, Egypt

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First Name

Mawaheb

Last Name

Zaki

MiddleName

Mahmoud

Affiliation

psychiatric & mental health nursing Benha University, Egypt

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Volume

1

Article Issue

2

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23389

Issue Date

2020-07-01

Receive Date

2020-06-01

Publish Date

2020-07-01

Page Start

22

Page End

46

Print ISSN

2682-3934

Online ISSN

2735-5802

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JNSBU_Volume 1_Issue 2_Pages 22-46.pdf

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Scientific peer reviewed journal

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1,622

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Publication Title

Journal of Nursing Science Benha University

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https://jnsbu.journals.ekb.eg/

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Effect of Psycho-educational Nursing Program on Social Adjustment and Selfesteem among Substance Abusers

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23 Jan 2023