Abstract
Substance abuse has been a longstanding global issue. Efforts are continuing to find solutions. Family support is important and occurs in different forms. This study was designed to identify factors influencing family support and to relate them to the types of support given to help develop family support indices. Factors deemed to influence family support were identified and subjected to factor analysis to deter-mine the association. A family support index was developed based on the four types of family support investigated. The scale categories ranging from very good to very poor as the indicator for the level of family support in the study area. Family support indices for the four types of support were high. The form of family support with the highest index score was ‘instrumental support’. We concluded that sub-stance abusers received good family support with the highest score recorded for instrumental support. The indices developed can help au-thorities obtain a comprehensive picture of support given and design programs to use optimally family support in the management of sub-stance abuse.
Highlights
Malaysia is a country that is rapidly expanding its mission to become a developed country by 2020 [1]
A family has an important role in the treatment of the diseases, including substance abuse problems through their supports given to the substance abusers
Factor analysis was applied in this study to identify the major factors that contribute to the family support
Summary
Malaysia is a country that is rapidly expanding its mission to become a developed country by 2020 [1]. Many studies had been done to overcome the substance abuse problems, realising that the closest group that are greatly affected by a person is a family. They were seen to have an important role in rehabilitation process for substance abuser. A family has an important role in the treatment of the diseases, including substance abuse problems through their supports given to the substance abusers. Previous study had pointed out that the family peers, social, cultural and economic aspects may influence the rehabilitation process for substance abuser [10]. Some findings reported that the effective treatments for rehabilitation process of substance abuser required supports from all parties involved [14]. The present study had proposed to identify the major factors that contribute to the family support, to develop family support indices in the area of the population
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