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ABSTRACT

Background:

The enormous consequences of drugs include suicides, traffic accidents, and violence affecting the individual, family, society, and country. Therefore, it is necessary to constantly identify and monitor the drug abuse rate among school students' youth. Geospatial Dashboard is vital for drug abuse and related crime incidence in a decision support system.

Objective:

This article mainly focuses on the process of designing and developing MyAsriGeo, a geospatial dashboard aimed at handling and analyzing multivariate students' data regarding drug usage, to provide different stakeholders with a comprehensive drug abuse risk assessment and analysis tool that meets their requirements, enhances their acceptance of the dashboard's usability, and measure interface quality, and sufficiency of the dashboard.

Methods:

A geospatial drug abuse dashboard for monitoring and analysis was designed and developed in this study based on agile methodology and prototyping. Using the Technology approval Model, we first examined and gathered the requirements, feedback, and user approval of the MyAsriGeo dashboard. (TAM). Experts and stakeholders such as the national anti-drug agency, police, the Federal Department of Town and Country Planning, school instructors, students, and researchers were among those who responded. A total of 20 specialists were involved in communication to evaluate the usability of the final version of the dashboard. The evaluation sought to identify various usability aspects, such as ease of use and usefulness, for both the pilot and final versions and two additional factors based on the Post-Study System Usability Questionnaire (PSSUQ) and Task-Technology Fit (TTF) models were enlisted to assess the interface quality and dashboard sufficiency for the final version.

Results:

MyAsriGeo geospatial dashboard was designed to meet the needs of all user types, as identified through a requirement gathering process. It includes several key functions, such as a geospatial map that shows the locations of high-risk areas for drug abuse, data on drug abuse among students, tools for assessing the risk of drug abuse in different areas, demographic information, and a self-problem test. It also includes the Alcohol, Smoking, and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) and its risk assessment to help users understand and interpret the results of student risk. The initial and final prototype version of the dashboard was evaluated by 20 experts, which revealed a significant improvement in the ease of use(P=.047), usefulness(P=.022) factors, and shows a high acceptance score mean for ease of use (4.2), usefulness (4.46), interface quality (4.29), and sufficiency (4.13).

Conclusions:

MyAsriGeo geospatial dashboard is useful for monitoring and analyzing drug abuse among school-going youth in Malaysia. It was developed based on the needs of various stakeholders, including the National Anti-Drugs Agency, police, and school teachers, and includes a range of functions that allow users to view and analyze data on drug abuse, assess the risk of drug abuse in different areas, and understand the results of risk assessments. The dashboard was evaluated by a group of experts; they found it usable and gave it a high score. Overall, MyAsriGeo geospatial dashboard is a valuable resource for helping stakeholders understand and respond to the issue of drug abuse among youth.