A Study to Assess the Knowledge of Higher Secondary School Teachers Regarding Substance Abuse in Selected Schools of Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh

Drug abuse is costly to our society as a whole but is especially to our youth. One of the best ways to combat the drug use among teenagers is to begin prevention efforts before young teen start using drugs.. The most common substances of abuse were and still are legal and easily available to citizen of all ages. Medical doctors privately treated cases of addiction.

Non experimental descriptive research design was adopted for the present study. A structured questionnaire was prepared and used to collect the data. The sampling technique adopted for the study was convenient sampling. Pilot study and final study was conducted in Delhi public school and Spring field public school. The data collected was analyzed by means of inferential and descriptive statistics.

The findings of the study revealed that, majority of school teachers 49(81.6%) had moderate knowledge, 6(10%) of school teachers had good knowledge and 5(8.3%) of school teachers had mild knowledge. The obtained chi-square value showed that there was significant relationship between the knowledge of higher secondary school teachers regarding substance abuse and its identification with selected demographic variables such as age.

The present study concludes that there is a need to asses the knowledge of school teachers regarding substance abuse and to develop a planned teaching programme to enhance awareness regarding this issue among the school authorities and students.