EFFECT OF NETWORK BUILDING AND SOCIAL SUPPORT ON THE BEHAVIOR OF HAZARDOUS DRUG CONSUMPTION AMONG THE POPULATION IN LALOM SUBDISTRICT, PHUSING DISTRICT, SISAKET PROVINCE
Keywords:
Program, Network, social support, consumption behavior, hazardous drugsAbstract
The purpose of this quasi-experimental research aimed to study the effects of a networking program with social support on hazardous drug consumption behavior of residents in Lalom Subdistrict, Phusing District, Sisaket Province. The sample was divided into two groups, each consisting of 35 participants, totaling 70 participants. The experimental group consisted of residents of Lalom Subdistrict, Phusing District, Sisaket Province, and the comparison group consisted of residents of PhraiPhatthana Subdistrict, Phusing District, Sisaket Province. The experimental group received a program developed by the researcher for 12 weeks, while the comparison group received a conventional program. Data were collected using questionnaires twice: before and after the experiment, from September 13, 2025 to December 6, 2025 Descriptive statistics were used to present frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, median, and 25th and 75th percentiles. Paired t-test was used to compare mean scores of variables within the experimental and comparison groups, and ANCOVA was used to compare means of variable scores between the experimental and comparison groups, with a significance level of 0.05
The results revealed that after the experiment, the experimental and comparison groups had different means of knowledge scores on hazardous drugs, attitudes toward hazardous drugs, and perceived risks of hazardous drugs. Perceived severity of hazardous drugs, perceived benefits of reducing hazardous drug use, perceived barriers to reducing hazardous drug use, social support for reducing hazardous drug consumption, networking for reducing hazardous drug consumption, perceived self-efficacy for reducing hazardous drug consumption, and hazardous drug consumption behaviors were significantly higher than pre-experiment at the 0.05 level. After controlling for the influence of the mean scores of pre-experiment variables, the two sample groups showed statistically significant differences in the mean scores of hazardous drug knowledge, attitudes toward hazardous drugs, perceived risks of hazardous drugs, perceived severity of hazardous drugs, perceived benefits of reducing hazardous drug use, perceived barriers to reducing hazardous drug use, social support for reducing hazardous drug consumption, networking for reducing hazardous drug consumption, perceived self-efficacy for reducing hazardous drug consumption, and hazardous drug consumption behaviors after the experiment at the 0.05 level.
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