KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICE OF PEOPLE IN SANANDAJ CITY ABOUT DRUG ADDICTION, 2017

Publish Year: 1398
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تاریخ نمایه سازی: 10 دی 1398

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Background and Aim : Nowadays, drug addiction is a major problem for young people. This destructive scourge annually threatens the health of millions of people, worldwide and destruction caused by it, causes the collapse of many of the values and ethical standards. The present study was conducted to evaluate the knowledge, attitude and practice of people in Sanandaj city about drug addiction, 2017. Methods : This was a cross-sectional study that was conducted in spring and Summer of 2017. 154 persons of the young people in Sanandaj city were selected, randomly. The tool of data collection was a questionnaire including 32 questions. The first part of it were demographic questions such as gender, age, marital status, level of education, income and the second part of it were questions about knowledge (10 questions), attitude (9 questions) and practice (6 questions) about drug addiction. The collected data were analyzed by SPSS 20 and descriptive and analytical statistics formula. Results : 25 cases (16.2%) of the samples were smoking cigarette. The findings of the study showed that 85 cases (55.2%) of the respondents had moderate knowledge about drug addiction and only 26 cases (16.9%) of them had good knowledge about it. The highest score of knowledge of the samples was about Opium and the lowest score of knowledge was about Cannabis. More than 58% of the respondents had a contact with a drug addiction person. Only 17 cases (11.1%) of the respondents had good attitude about drug addiction and 14 cases (9.1%) of them had good attitude about drug addiction users. 21 cases (13.6%) of them revealed that they are drug addiction users. 52% of the drug addiction users revealed that they were alcohol users. More than 80% of the drug addiction users were hated of drug addiction. There was relationship between drug addiction and level of education (p=0.0002) and income (p=0.0004). More than 90% of the drug addiction users had less than 3000,000 Rials income in a month. Conclusion : Proper planning in the health centers in order to acquaint the public with a variety of drugs and the ways of their control and their elimination in the community is suggested

Authors

Arezoo Vahabi

Student Research Committee, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran

Ahmad Vahabi

Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Faculty of Paramedical, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran

Boshra Vahabi

Student Research Committee, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran

Sirvan Sayyad

Student Research Committee, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran