Child-Parent Relationships and Parents’ Preventive Behaviors Affecting the Onset of Substance Use in Children: My Family Study

Abstract

Background: Considering the fundamental role that parents play in a family dynamic, it is important to explore the parent-child relationship and examine what protective behaviors or risk factors may contribute to the onset of substance use in children.Objectives: The present study aims to investigate the correlation between child-parent relationships and parents' preventive behaviors and their effect on the onset of substance use in children. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out in 2014 among 234 randomly selected volunteer participants. These participants, who were all Tehran-based Iranian mothers, filled out a self-administered questionnaire in which they recorded: I-demographic information, II of family-based behaviors aimed at preventing the onset of substance use in children, and III of the child-parent relationship. Data were analyzed via SPSS software (ver. 21.0) using Pearson correlations, independent t-tests, and ANOVA at a 95% significant level.

The ‘my family-study’ onset substance use prevention programme in early childhood: an introduction

“…Step 2: Creating the Matrices of Change Objectives; the second steps provide the foundation for the intervention by define who (parents) and what (parents' behavior) will changes as a result of intervention. The product of step 2 was a matrix of family level that combines performance objectives with selected determinants to product change objectives as a most immediate target an intervention (17)(18)(19).…”