The Effectiveness of Religious Belief-Based Prevention Skills Training on Flexibility of Action, Emotional, Social, and Educational Adjustment in High-Risk Drug Abuse Students of Second of High School

The aim of the present study was to determine the effectiveness of religious belief-based prevention skills training on the flexibility of action, emotional, social and educational adjustment of second of high school students exposed to drug abuse in Ahvaz. The research method was experimental with pretest-posttest design with control group. The statistical population of the study consisted of students of second-of high school exposed to drug abuse in Ahvaz who were studying in the academic year 2017-2018. Sample size consisted of 80 students who were selected by multistage random cluster sampling and assigned to experimental (40) and control (40) groups. The experimental group received 17 sessions of religious belief-based prevention skills training. Conner-Davidson’s Flexibility of Action Scale and Sinha and Singh adjustment inventory of the high school students were used for data collection. The results showed that there was a significant difference between experimental and control groups in the variables of flexibility of action, emotional, social and educational adjustment. Religious beliefs-based prevention skills training can be used as an appropriate preventive intervention method.