The Effect of Narcotics Anonymous Meeting toward Relapse Prevention among Prisoners Tianingrum Niken Agus1,*, Feriani Pipit2, Susanti Erni Wingki1, Purdani Kartika Setia2, Winarti Yuliani1, Safrudin Bachtiar2 1Public Health Program, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universitas Muhammadiyah Kalimantan Timur, Samarinda, Indonesia 2Nursing Program, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universitas Muhammadiyah Kalimantan Timur, Samarinda, Indonesia *Corresponding Author: Niken Agus Tianingrum, Public Health Program, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universitas Muhammadiyah Kalimantan Timur, Jl. Juanda No. 15, Semarang, 75124, Email: nikenagust@umkt.ac.id
Online published on 20 March, 2019. Abstract Narcotics has been becoming transnational problem which was involving many sectors, include prison. Increasing of drugs abuse and criminalities caused increasing of prisoners. This problem was not only a social problem, but also health problem, especially mental health problem in prison. In fact, prison and punishment did not effectively heal their criminalities and also their addiction toward narcotics. Unfortunately, it precisely made a hidden movement of narcotics inside prison. It was necessary to build a program to prevent bad practice among prisoner and heal their addiction. One of the effective ways to solve the problem is rehabilitation in prison. But, rehabilitation could not sustain without desire to prevent relapse. This research aimed to know the effectiveness of NA meeting toward relapse prevention among the prisoners. This research is an experimental study which was initiated in Samarinda Narcotics Prison, East Kalimantan. NA meeting were held among 30 participants, divided over 2 groups. The meeting has been conducted once a week for 3 months. Data collected by pre and post-test. Results show that participants have a different level of attitude about relapse prevention of drugs abuse. According to statistical test, this study presenting the value of p= 0.0001, which we can conclude that there is significant effect of NA Meeting toward relapse prevention among prisoner. In addition, there is fair enough correlation (r = 0, 660) between NA meeting with relapse prevention among prisoner. Interventions focusing on support group, education and rehabilitation may improve relapse prevention among prisoner. Top Keywords Prisoner, narcotics anonymous, relapse prevention. Top |