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The Educational Role Of The Health Professional: Healthy Lifestyle Behavior Development Training For Alcohol And Substance Addicts (AI)
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The most important step in developing a healthy life behavior is to avoid risky life behaviors.This study was planned to identify the behaviors of alcohol and drug addicts to a healthy lifestyle and to study the impact of education given on healthy lifestyle behaviors by teaching them about this.The study was conducted at the University of Dependency.The necessary permissions for the conduct of the research were obtained and the work was carried out with volunteers.In the study, according to the diagnostic criteria of DSM-IV, 33 patients were diagnosed with alcohol/substance addiction and were treated in bed.Before training to patients, sociodemographic data survey, the scale of healthy lifestyle behaviors was applied.The psycho-educational program, which consists of a weekly session, was implemented for a total of 4 sessions of an hour and a half.A month after the completion of the training, a healthy lifestyle behavior scale was reapplicated and compared to the pre-training.The data was analyzed with the SPSS 15 package program.It has been shown that the individual’s healthy lifestyle behavior scale overall score, self-performance, health responsibility, exercise, nutrition, interpersonal support and stress management low scale points have increased in the last measurements.For all scales, the score difference between the pre-test and the final-test is statistically significant (p<0.01).Addicts should be able to make healthy choices, appropriate health education initiatives should be developed by health professionals.Keywords: health education, addiction, healthy lifestyle behavior, patient education.