Risk Factors For Substance Abuse Among Harare Nothern Central District High School Adolescents

ABSTRACT

Theresearchsorttoassessriskfactorsassociatedwithsubstanceabuseamong

HarareNorthernCentralDistrictHighSchooladolescents.Theresearcherobservedthat

substance abuse is becoming a dominantelementthatimpedes physicaland

psychologicalfunctioning amongststudents.Thereforetheresearch wasdirected

towardsidentifyingindividual,environmentalandlastly demographicriskfactorsfor

adolescentsubstance abuse.A non-experimentalexploratorydescriptive research

designwasusedwith1928adolescentsaged12-19whoweresampledusingmultilevel

stratifiedclusterrandom samplingfrom 29schoolsinHararenortherncentraldistrict.

TheSASUCRIself-reportquestionnairewasusedastheresearchinstrument.Datawas

analysedusingSTATAtodeterminebothdescriptiveandinferentialstatistics.Fisher’s

exacttestofassociation,Pearsonproductmomentcorrelationwereusedtogetherwith

logicalregressionmodels.Demographicriskfactorswerenotasignificantpredictorof

adolescentsubstanceabuse.Peerinfluence(CI3.41-7.1),p

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APA

, N (2021). Risk Factors For Substance Abuse Among Harare Nothern Central District High School Adolescents. Afribary. Retrieved from https://track.afribary.com/works/risk-factors-for-substance-abuse-among-harare-nothern-central-district-high-school-adolescents

MLA 8th

, NOREENKUDZANAIWINIDARI "Risk Factors For Substance Abuse Among Harare Nothern Central District High School Adolescents" Afribary. Afribary, 04 May. 2021, https://track.afribary.com/works/risk-factors-for-substance-abuse-among-harare-nothern-central-district-high-school-adolescents. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.

MLA7

, NOREENKUDZANAIWINIDARI . "Risk Factors For Substance Abuse Among Harare Nothern Central District High School Adolescents". Afribary, Afribary, 04 May. 2021. Web. 24 Nov. 2024. < https://track.afribary.com/works/risk-factors-for-substance-abuse-among-harare-nothern-central-district-high-school-adolescents >.

Chicago

, NOREENKUDZANAIWINIDARI . "Risk Factors For Substance Abuse Among Harare Nothern Central District High School Adolescents" Afribary (2021). Accessed November 24, 2024. https://track.afribary.com/works/risk-factors-for-substance-abuse-among-harare-nothern-central-district-high-school-adolescents