Structural model of the role of environmental and family factors in the developmental prevention of the tendency to use drugs and psychotropic substances

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the structural model of the role of environmental and family factors in the developmental prevention of the tendency to use drugs and psychotropic substances. Method: The research was descriptive-correlational. The statistical population of the study included Children and adolescents in Karaj who had used drugs or psychotropic substances at least once. Among them, 250 people were selected by non-probability snowball sampling. Results: In the research model, the environmental factor with a coefficient equal to 0.77 and then the family factor with a coefficient equal to 0.63 had direct and significant effects on the tendency of children and adolescents to use drugs and psychotropic substances. Conclusion: Environmental and family factors are effective in developmental prevention of children and adolescentschr('39') tendency to use drugs and psychotropic substances, but environmental factors have a stronger effect, so focusing on the environmental structure of communities can make preventive processes more practical.