Agensi antidadah kebangsaan kementerian dalam negeri

METHODOLOGY
Forty-three secondary school students who have been confirmed to be
involved in drug abuse by the Unit Pendidikan Pencegahan Dadah (PPDa)
were the participants of this study. All participants were male students
aged between 15 to 17 years old and the mean age was 16.09. They were
Form 3, 4, and 5 students from various schools in Bangsar, Sentul, Pudu
and Keramat zones.
The questionnaire used in this study is called the Borang Biodata
Pelajar Ujian Urin Positif.
It comprises of three attachments: The first
attachment is the demographic information section and it consists of
28 items; the second attachment is the supervision section for
recording school attendance; and the third attachment is the
supervision section for recording students' misconduct in schools.

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The questionnaire was designed by the PPDa unit. The reliability and
validity of the instrument was never reported and investigated.
However, the form has been extensively used to record detailed
information of students who have positive results in the urine test for
drugs since 2002. For the purpose of this research, only items 8 (gender),
9 (form), 16 (usage stage), 19 (parents’/guardian’s background: father’s
and mother's occupation), 20 (number of siblings), 21 (house location),
22 (house condition), 25 (source of drugs), and 26 (cause of involvement)
from the demography section were examined and analyzed. The rest
of the items were not included in this study because they were beyond
the scope of this study and thus classified as “strictly private and
confidential”.
The data were collected and analyzed by using an examination of
records method. In order to substantiate the finding and to get further
information regarding some of the items, an informal interview was
carried out. The interviewer was a drug education-and-prevention officer
who was in-charge of the files and records of the students confirmed
having drug abuse problems. Most of the analyses use frequency
distribution to present the findings.