the effectiveness of self-healing training (healing codes) on psychological capital and a sense of cohesion in drug addicts

Background: drug addicts are exposed to many psychological and physical injuries due to theproblems they experience in their lives; thus, they need training for psychological improvement.the purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of self-healing training onpsychological capital and a sense of cohesion in drug addicts in 2020.methods: this study was a two-stage quasi-experimental study (experimental and control) inthree stages (pre-test, post-test, and follow-up). using convenience sampling, we selected 30 menwilling to participate in the project and randomly divided them into the experimental (n= 15) andcontrol (n= 15) groups. the psychological capital questionnaire and the sense of coherencequestionnaire were administered as a pre-test. the experimental group underwent 14 sessions (90minutes per week) of self-healing training. the follow-up was performed after 45 days. analysisof the data involved both descriptive and inferential statistics, including mean, standard deviation,and the repeated measures anova. data analysis was done using spss version 24.results: the results showed that self-healing training had a significant effect on increasingpsychological capital, increasing hope with the most effect and resilience with the least effect,as well as increasing participants’ self-efficacy and sense of cohesion (p<0.05). the self-healingtraining had no effect on optimism. the results remained until the follow-up stage.conclusion: according to the results, self-healing training can be used as one of the new positiveapproaches to increase the mental health of drug addicts in treatment centers related to addictionwith relatively lasting effects to increase self-care skills.