Substance use

Mathematics

Medical education

Psychotherapist

Clinical psychology

Self-efficacy

Statistics

Psychiatry

Assertiveness

Psychology

Psychological intervention

Harm

Descriptive statistics

Substance abuse

Life skills

Medicine

Social psychology

Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse

Substance use is a social harm. Promoting substance users readiness for treatment of substance use with a non-medical approach is important besides the medical approach. The current study aimed to determine the relationship between readiness for treatment of substance use and self-efficacy based on life skills. In this descriptive-analytical study, a number of 118 substance users in Hamadan city (Iran) were participated. The data collection tools were Stages of Change Readiness and Treatment Eagerness Scale (SOCRATES) and Drug Avoidance Self-Efficacy Scale (DASES). Analytical and descriptive tests were used for data analysis, at 95% significant level, using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences 16. The results of this study showed that the readiness for treatment of substance use had a significant relationship with the self-efficacy includes assertiveness and communication (Df:1; Pvalue<0.05). Self-efficacy based on life skills can be used to promote substance users readiness for treatment of substance use in educational interventions.

The relationship between readiness for treatment of substance use and self-efficacy based on life skills