TENDENCY RATE TO DRUGS BETWEEN THE PEOPLE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE OF SANANDAJ CITY, 2017.

Background and Aim : Nowadays drug tendency among young people is increasing. Using drugs causing serious illness among them and threatens their health. This study aimed to determine the tendency rate to drugs among the people in the countryside of Sanandaj, 2017. Methods : In this cross-sectional study, 130 persons aged 18 to 55 years old from the countryside of Sanandaj were selected randomly. The data were collected, using a two-part questionnaire. The first part was including age, gender, level of education, monthly income, parents’ education. The second part of the questionnaire was 16 questions about tendency towards drugs among youth. The data were analyzed by SPSS 20. Results : Eighty cases (61.5%) of the respondents were female and the others were male. Mean age of the studied samples was 32.13±7.21 years old. Twenty eight cases (21.5%) of the respondents said have used the drugs at least once. Of these, 7 cases (25%) were female and the others (75%) were male. Only 9 cases (32.1%) of addicts had academic degree and the others had primary education or illiterate. Seventy cases (53.8%) of the surveyed people said that they have addict in their family or their close relatives in the family, and 30 cases (23.1%) of them said they have close friends addicted. One hundred and twenty two (93.8%) of the respondents believed that in their neighborhood easily exchanged drugs and 124 cases (95.4%) of them believed that there is no legal action with drug dealers. There is a statistically significant negative correlation between tendency to drugs and parents’ education (r=-1.23, p = 0.004), household income (r=-2.54, p = 0.001) and level of education (r=-3.08, p = 0.002). Conclusion : The results revealed that low education level and low household income of the individuals or their families are the important reasons of tendency to addiction. Raising the level of their education and training classes in the fight against drugs, as well as providing good jobs with good income, can reduce the tendency of the people to drugs.

کلیدواژه ها:

Tendency ، Drugs ، Abuse ، Young people ، Youth