ASSIST-Y linked Islamic BI among substance abuse students of Islamic private schools in three southern border provinces

Abstract

This paper was aimed to study of the prevalence and patterns of substance abuse among the Muslim students, to evaluate the effectiveness of the ASSIST-Y linked Islamic BI among the substance abuse students and survey the opinions of teachers and guardians towards ASSIST-Y linked Islamic BI among substance abuse students of Islamic private schools in three southern border provinces. The study was a single blinded with cluster randomized control Trial. The ASSIST-Y was used to screen the students in each school and recruited all 287 students in to study and were randomized to intervention group (n = 117) and control group (n = 170) as well as followed up at three months after intervention. The outcomes measurement were ASSIST-Y Test, Time line Followed back (TLFB). The teacher and guardian’s opinion regards to ASSIST-Y linked Islamic BI questionnaire. The Descriptive statistic, Paired t-test and Independent t-test were used for analysis.

The results founded that tobacco  was  the  most  common  substance  used ( 97.3 %)  followed  by krathomcocktail (20.8 %), marijuana ( 2.7 %), amphetamine (2.4 %), sedative and alcohol (0.8 %) respectively, among students of Islamic private schools in three southern border provinces. The outcome measures were changes in the Specific Substance Involvement Scores (SSIS). There were significant reductions within group in both intervention and control groups (P < 0.001) and SSIS were significant reductions between groups (P <0.001). The level of opinion total scores of teachers and guardians regards to ASSIST-Y linked Islamic BI among substance abuse students were high.