The Impact of Family-Based Training on Attitude to Drugs and Irrational Beliefs among Female High School Students of Sabzevar with Addicted Parents

: The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of family-based training on attitude to drugs and irrational beliefs of female high school students with addicted parents in Sabzevar in 2016.

This research employed a quasi-experimental research design along with pretest-posttest and control group. The statistical population of this study included female high school students from Sabzevar with a parent with substance use disorder where 36 ones were selected through random cluster sampling method and were randomly divided into control and experimental groups. The experimental group received family-based training program for nine sessions and the control group received no training. The required data were collected through Attitude toward Drugs Questionnaire and Irrational Beliefs scale.

The results of covariance analysis showed that family-based training had a significant positive effect on attitude to drugs components of female students with addicted parent (p<0.05); however, this educational plan only had a significant positive impact on demand for approval, blame proneness, and dependency (p<0.05) and there was no effect on other components of irrational beliefs (p>0.05).

Since family-based training produced negative attitudes toward drugs and changes in some components of irrational beliefs among the students, it seems necessary that these training programs should receive the attention of high schools and universities.