Drug Addiction Intervention for Adolescents with Religious Spirituality and Biofeedback

Salam, Urme and Muhammad Nubli, Abdul Wahab (2014) Drug Addiction Intervention for Adolescents with Religious Spirituality and Biofeedback. Psychophysiology Today, 9 (1). pp. 1-10. ISSN 1999-9879. (Published)

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Abstract

Religious spirituality (taubah, zikir and holy Quran recitation) and biofeedback devices (GSR & HRV) play a vital role in drug addiction treatment among teenagers. This study explored the effect of religious faith, spirituality and biofeedback in 36 drug addicted school students (aged13-19) of Kuantan, Pahang in Malaysia. Participants were randomly assigned either to a training group (n = 18) or control group (n = 18). Religious spirituality significantly help to reduce the drug addiction in the active training group (2 (4) = 34.359, p < 0.001, but not in the control group (2 (4) = 2.322, p >0.05. It was observed that high levels of religious faith and spirituality significantly effects to intervene the adolescents from addiction. Survey data indicate that high levels of religious faith and spirituality were closely related with positive life orientation, better perceived social assistance and lower levels of depression, anxiety and stress. The findings of this study confirmed that the effect of religious treatment was related to physiological change. Therefore this study represents the greatest self-report research to assess the relationship between religious faith and spirituality to recover the drug addiction through GSR and HRV biofeedback devices.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Drug Addiction; Biofeedback
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Faculty/Division:	Centre For Modern Languages and Human Sciences
Depositing User:	Prof. Dr. Muhammad Nubli Abdul Wahab
Date Deposited:	25 Feb 2014 04:31
Last Modified:	29 Aug 2017 07:30
URI:	http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/5067
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