A Cross Sectional Analysis Of Familial Life And Drug Addiction In Swat Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Abstract

The objective of this research article “A Cross sectional analysis of familial life and drug addiction in swat Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan” is to explore familial factors' contribution to drug addiction and its consequences on other family members in the area.
This study is based on a conceptual framework comprising of independent variable familial life, dependent variable effects of drug addiction on other family members and background variables were age, monthly income and educational level. Simple frequency for
prevalence, chi square for association, multi-variate for spuriousness along “Kendall Tb” for strength and direction of the association. A high prevalence was found in favor of given statements against drug addiction, highly significant (P = 0.000) and positive (Tb = 0-1)
except“good relationships with family members and parental separation where (Tb = - 0-1” with effects of drugs addiction on other family members along with non-spurious and positiveresults by controlling age, education and monthly income of the respondents were found in the study.