Relationship Between Perceived Social Support (Family, Friends and Other Important People) With the Tendency of Using Psychotropic Substances Among the Nurses of Hospitals in Kermanshah City

Abstract

Methods: The statistical population of this descriptive-correlational study consisted of all nurses of hospitals in Kermanshah (2016). 341 nurses were selected using cluster sampling method and the data-gathering tools was the multi-dimensional scale of social support perception (Zimat et al. 1988) and questionnaire (Bahremand and colleagues, 2014) was applied for the tendency of using psychotropic substances. Data were analyzed by SPSS-22 software, Pearson correlation, and regression analysis tests. Results: The results of the research showed that there was a significant relationship between the components of the perception of social support and the general score of the tendency toward psychotropic substances. These relationships were meaningful in level (P <0.001).