Development of Drug Addict Treatment Model with Family and Community Participation in SuratThani Province

Abstract

This action research purposed to developed and evaluated a drug addict treatment model with family and community participation in Surat Thani Province. The study was divided into 2 phases: Phase 1 was qualitative research using Delphi technique. There were 65 representatives involved key informants from community leader. President of the local government organization, Secondary School Director, director of community hospital and Director of the Tambon Health Promoting Hospital and drug addicts’ family. The problems, limitations and best practice were analyzed for quantitative research. Assessment of recognition and implementation of the model were conducted for quantitative research. The samples sized were representatives of relevant health personnel which determine from a computer program. G*Power version 3.1.9.4 amount 30 population. The assessment of model applied results were done in all 68 drug addicts. The research instruments consisted of 1) an open-ended questionnaire for the model development of the first Delphi technique. 2) a questionnaire for model developing according to the second Delphi technique. 3) a questionnaire for evaluating the model's suitability. 4) Participation in drug prevention and treatment questionnaire, and 5) Satisfaction questionnaire for model implementation. Qualitative data were analyzed by content analysis. Quantitative data were analyzed by percentage, mean, standard deviation. and t-test.

The results illustrated that the model of treatment for drug addicts with family and community participation in Surat Thani Province consisted of 5 steps: 1) family and community participation strengthening; 2) planning operations; 3) drug addict’s treatment. 4) participation in control and monitoring, and 5) long-term care. The model assessment indicated that, before using the model, the representative families of drug addicts who participated in the activities were low level participated in drug prevention and treatment (±SD =3.38±0.49), then family representatives participated in high level (±SD =4.23±0.33) after using the model, which increased statistically significant level of 0.05 (p-value=0.01). The overall satisfaction assessment results were increased significantly (p-value < .001).