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Social Supports For Methamphetamine Users Treated As In- Patients At Thanyarak Institute, N Denduangboripant, R. Kalayasiri

Chulalongkorn Medical Journal

Background : The wide spread of methamphetamine or ya-ba causes problems with increasing number of methamphetamine users every year. Most methamphetamine users usually have family and social problems. Objectives : To study social supports and associated factors of methamphetamine users who are receiving treatments as in-patients. Setting : Thanyarak Institute. Design : A cross - sectional descriptive study. Materials and Method : Data were collected from 249 in-patients of the residential treatment at Thanyarak Institute in March 2012. The research instruments consisted of the demographic questionnaire, The Personal Resource Questionnaire: PRQ Part 2. Data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics …