Correlation Between Social Supports and Drug Abuse Screening Test-10 Among Senior High School Students at Pekanbaru District, RiauProvince, Indonesia

Abstract

Drug abuse is common among adolescent, and its consequences pose important public health problem. Family, friend,school and other member of community should give support to adolescents so that they are emotionally and mentallyready to fight against drug. This cross sectional study was designed to investigate correlation between social supportwith Drug Abuse Screening Test-10 (DAST-10) and association of social support with treatment evaluation. Subjectsincluded 210 senior high school students in Pekanbaru, Riau. Data obtained from Adolescents Social Support (ASS)questionnaire included social supports, and from DAST-10 included severity and treatment evaluation of drug abuse.This study showed family support, school environment and peer group support were significantly associated andsignificantly correlation to DAST-10 with strong correlation (0.718, 0.720 and 0.727, respectively) in negative direction.In conclusion, social supports could be a protective factor for adolescents related drug abuse.