The Effectiveness of Group Reality Therapy in Attitude toward Smoking among Male Students of High School

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The study aim is investigating the effectiveness of group reality therapy on attitude toward smoking among male students. Population includes male students in first year of high schools in Tabriz, area 2.48 person were selected as samples via mono stage cluster sampling.
In order to collect data, attitude toward smoking questionair was used. Experiment group received group realiting therapy one session every week, for one hour and Forty-five minutes for ten weeks. independendent and paired test were applied to analyze data.
Results showed that the attitude of students who received group reality therapy is significantly lower than the students who didn’t receive group reality therapy.
Group reality therapy has effection attitude toward cigarette smoking in male students and it leads to reduce high positive attitude toward smoking.

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