THE EFFECT OF COUNSELING ON INCREASING ADOLESCENT KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDES ABOUT NARCOTICS, PSYCHOTROPICS AND ADDICTIVE SUBSTANCES
Keywords:
counseling, narcotics, psychotropics, addictive subtances, adolescentsAbstract
Abstract—Narcotics, Psychotropics, and Addictive
Substances (Drugs) are substances that can affect a
person's thoughts, feelings and behavior and can lead to
physical and psychological dependence. The negative
impact of the abuse of Narcotics, Psychotropics and
Addictive Substances on adolescents is changes in
attitudes, temperament and personality, and decreased
discipline and moral values of behavior. This study aims
to analyze the effect of counseling on increasing
adolescent knowledge and attitudes about drugs. The
study used a pre-experiment with pre and post-test
design on 47 adolescents who were selected by
consecutive sampling. The data were analyzed using
paired t-test. There was a significant difference between
before and after adolescents attended counseling, both in
adolescent knowledge (P = 0.02 CI: 95%) and adolescent
attitudes (P = 0.04, CI; 95%). Providing counseling can
increase the knowledge and attitudes of adolescents
about drugs.