Effectiveness of emotion regulation training on mindfulness and craving in soldiers with opioid use disorder

As the youths are the most vulnerable part of people to drug use disorders; identifying the conditions which play a significant role in their prevention or treatment, is an important issue. Military servicing is a Special situation, which most of the male youths, experience it in their life. Therefore, this study conducted to determine the effectiveness of emotion regulation training based on Gross's model on mindfulness and craving in soldiers with opioid use disorder.
The design of the study is semiexperimental; and, it has performed in a pretestposttest format with accompany of a control group and also follow-up period. The populations were all of the soldiers whom were under the methadone maintenance treatment at the medical clinic of military unit. The study sample were composed of 40 available members that randomly assigned to one of the experiment and control groups. After separating the groups, the experimental group members received 9 sessions emotion regulation training (90 minutes per a session) based on gross's model. Mixed variance analysis test (Mixed ANOVA) used for data analyzing.
The result of data analysis indicate that, the emotion regulation training was effective in increasing the mindfulness (P Based on the findings, we can conclude that, by increasing the mindfulness and decreasing the craving to opioid using in result of an emotion regulation training period, we will be able to prepare a good condition for Precluding the possibly relapse of opioid users and also facilitate their certain treatment eventually.