نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
نویسندگان
1 استاد، گروه روانشناسی، دانشگاه پیام‌نور، تهران، ایران
2 کارشناس ارشد روانشناسی بالینی، گروه روانشناسی، دانشگاه پیام‌نور، تهران، ایران
3 دانشیار، گروه روانشناسی، دانشگاه پیام‌نور، تهران، ایران
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عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسندگان [English]
Introduction: Craving drug abuse is a common manifestation of the urgent and irrecoverable desire against substance abuse. The present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on cravings, cognitive flexibility, and abstraction of opiate abusers.
Method: The research method was semi-experimental with pretest-posttest and a 2-month follow-up design. The statistical population consisted of opiate addicts, and 30 men selected through the convenience sampling method were assigned into experimental (tDCS) and sham groups (15 people per group). The tools used in this research were the Franken et al.'s instant craving questionnaire and the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test that were performed on two groups before the intervention. The tDCS intervention method included 10 sessions of 20 minutes with an intensity of 2 milliamps. The obtained data were analyzed using multivariate analysis of covariance.
Results: The results obtained using covariance analysis showed a significant difference between the experimental and sham groups in the post-test and follow-up in all three components of the cravings and the scores of the components of the Wisconsin test (P<0.001).
Conclusion: TDCS has essential implications in reducing cravings and improving executive cognitive flexibility in addict to opiate and is recommended as an effective treatment method for addiction therapists in treatment clinics.
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