The Effectiveness of a Positive Youth Development Education Program with an Islamic Approach on Social Health and Rumination of Male Adolescents at Risk of Methadone Addiction in Bushehr

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the positive youth development education program with an islamic approach on social health and rumination of male adolescents at risk of methadone addiction in Bushehr city, Iran in 2022. This quasi-experimental study was conducted with a pretest-posttest control group design. The statistical population of the study was male adolescents at risk of methadone addiction in Bushehr. Thirty male adolescents at risk of methadone addiction who had the highest scores in problems of social health and rumination were purposefully selected and randomly assigned into experimental and control groups. After performing the pre-test, the experimental group was exposed to the positive youth development education program with an islamic approach based on Kiani study, for 9 sessions of 60 minutes (one session per week). The Keyes Social Health Questionnaire and the Hoeksema and Morrow Ruminative Response Scale were used to collect data. The results indicated that the positive youth development education program with an islamic approach improved social health and its components including social cohesion, social adaptation, social participation, social prosperity and social acceptance in the experimental group compared to the control group. The intervention also reduced rumination in the experimental group compared to the control group.