Relación entre la sensibilidad al refuerzo, estadios del cambio y permanencia en el tratamiento en policonsumidores pertenecientes a comunidades terapéuticas de la ciudad de Villavicencio

Abstract

This research aims to establish the relation between sensitivity to reinforcement, the stages of change and the permanence in treatment in people with polydrug use of psychoactive substances between the ages of 18 and 59 belonging to three therapeutic communities in the city of Villavicencio. Its methodology is quantitative of a non-experimental type, correlational scope, cross-sectional. The sociodemographic data questionnaire, the Sensitivity to Punishment and Sensitivity to Reward (SCSR) Questionnaire, the University of Rhode Island Change Assessment Scale (URICA) and a register for each institution for the registration of entry and exit of users with the purpose of evaluating the permanence of people in the program. The sample is of a non-probabilistic type, at the convenience of the researcher and is made up of 114 people between the ages of 18 and 59 belonging to the therapeutic communities Corporation La Casa del Alfarero, Intergnational Corporation for the treatment of addictions DECÍDETE and Foundation Casa Blanca from the city of Villavicencio. The findings show that people sensitive to punishment, with anxious personality traits are prone to register low permanence, are less likely to recognize their problems and act due to external pressures, on the other hand, those with greater sensitivity to reinforcement and impulsive traits have a greater willingness to change. Both the presence of high levels of sensitivity to reinforcement and punishment allow one to commit to maintaining the changes and avoid relapse once they have reached this stage. There is no statistically significant relationship between the stages of change and permanence in treatment.