A survey of the knowledge and attitude of students of Elmi-Karbordi higher education ‎center at Tehran Jahad-e-Daneshgahi about ecstasy

One of the types of drug abuse is the use of euphoriantssuch asamphetamines and amphetamine ‎compounds. As the use of these compounds is on the increase, this study was an attempt to determine ‎the level of knowledge (audio and visual) and attitude of students of Elmi-Karbordhigher education ‎center at Tehran Jahad-e-Daneshgahi about ecstasy. ‎ ‎In this cross-sectional study, 247 students were randomly selected. Data were collected through ‎a questionnaire containing 30 questions and analyzed by Chi-square test The significance level ‎was considered to be less than 0.05. The results showed that the majority of students (85.6%) had little visual knowledge. Audio ‎knowledge among the students was 88.5% and their attitude about ecstasy was73.7% percent. There ‎was no relationship between the student's visual and aural knowledge about the use of ecstasy with ‎parent's present status, parent's education, family size and birth rank, but there was a significant ‎relationship between audio knowledge and marital status and belief status (P < 0.05). According to the results of this study, the youth, especially young students, are vulnerable to the use of ‎these pills. So, training programs are required for the young people to prevent the use of these pills. ‎