Abstract:
The quasi-experimental to study the effect of motivational enhancement therapy groups on knowledge and readiness to quit smoking for individuals with schizophrenia. The research using a one-group pretest-posttest design. A simple random sampling method was used to recruit the sample of 40 people with schizophrenia who met the specified criteria. The research instruments included questionnaires to gather data for 1) Personal information 2) readiness to quit smoking assessment 3) knowledge about smoking 4) motivational enhancement therapy group for quitting smoking. Find the reliability of the tool by calculating Cronbachs alpha coefficient, which yielded reliability values of 0.89 and 0.94. Data analysis using descriptive statistics and pair t-test. The results revealed that the comparison of the mean scores of readiness to quit smoking and knowledge about smoking between the before and the after experiment that the mean score of readiness to quit smoking (before the experiment M = 5.15, SD = 1.93; after the experiment M = 7.33, SD = 1.94) and the mean score of knowledge about smoking (before the experiment M = 8.23, SD = 0.95; after the experiment M = 9.45, SD = 0.75) were significantly higher than before experiment at the level of p < .001. The findings suggest that psychiatric nurses should conduct group therapy activities to enhance motivation for quitting smoking in order to increase knowledge and readiness to quit smoking for individuals with schizophrenia.