Evaluation of substance use disorders in adolescents with and parental attitude scale in protection from substance addiction

Introduction and Aim: Families' attitude and self-efficacy concepts are very important in the development of substance use disorder. In the thesis study, it was aimed to evaluate the substance use disorder in adolescents within the framework of self-efficacy and parental attitude scale in protection from substance addiction. Methods: Online survey method was used within the scope of the study, 150 randomly selected adolescents were contacted with their families' permission and questionnaires were sent. Personal Information Form, Substance Abuse Self-Efficacy Scale and Parenting Attitude Scale were used as data collection tools. Statistical analyzes were made in IBM SPSS statistics 20.0 program. Significance level was taken as 0.05. Discussion and Conclusion: Participants who do not spend time with their families have higher scores on the scale of avoiding drugs / stimulants and avoiding drugs / stimulants while under pressure, while participants who spend time with their families have higher perceived democratic parental attitude levels. It was found to be higher than those who did not spend time with. Participants who do not engage in activities with their family are self-efficacious for protection from substance addiction, avoiding drugs / stimulants, avoiding drugs / stimulants under pressure, seeking help with drugs / stimulants, helping friends about drugs / stimulants scale scores higher than the participants found.