Abstract:

The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence and the risk factors of the substance use at high school and university students. The study was concluded with 1750 high school students and 361 university students in Antalya in 2010-2011 academic year. The data was collected with The Healthy Life Style Survey and Basic Life Scale Inventory Botwin et al 1995, Siyez and Palabuyuk, 2009). Central trend measures and Pearson correlation were cnducted for the data analysis. The finding odthe study showed that the age of the participants tried the substances first time were getting lower ages. The adolescents at risk were found that students had problems with the friends, who had lack of father figure, had parental subtance use in the family and had school attendance problems. There was no relationship between school achievement and substance use. The participants implied that they expected school and security services and legal arrangements were important to prevent the substance use. The findings also showed that the adolescents and young people needed the skill-based intervention progran-ms and activities as a substance use prevention pproach.

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