The present study was aimed to investigate the effect of life skills training on the reduction of anxiety and depression in drug dependent people who referred to drop-in center for harm reduction of Zanjan City.
The population included 90 subjects all those with drug dependence who referred to drop-in center for harm reduction of Zanjan City. There was used Convenience Sampling Method. In this study, experimental method with pretest-posttest design containing control group was used. It was so that30 people who had the necessary qualifications in accordance with Beck Inventory (Levels of anxiety and depression, mild, moderate and severe), were selected as qualified for the research. Then, the 30 selected subjects were randomly placed in experimental and control groups, each group including 15 people. Measuring tools were Beck Anxiety Inventory and Beck Depression Inventory. Teaching life skills to the Experimental Group was carried out during 8sessions of 90 minutes.
To analyze the data, the frequency, the mean and standard deviation were used for descriptive purposes, and in the inferential part, Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistical test and analysis of covariance were utilized.
The findings indicate that the mean scores of control group at Depression and Anxiety decreased at post-test. Then, it can be concluded that life skills training had been effective in reducing depression of drug abusers and that, it can be applied as a method.
