The prevalence of drug and substance abuse among Kenyan secondary school students has been a major problem and has been linked to adverse consequences such as suicide, delinquency, criminal behaviors, psychological ...

Most studies in Social media indicate that about 52% of the world’s population, including school going ones has been found to be frequent users of the social media networking. Despite this understanding few studies have ...

Media is said to influence the character of a child and adolescent in adulthood. Kenya has had a rapid expansion of media whose large proportions of features are western oriented. This study sought to find out the influence ...

The practice of exclusive breastfeeding is critical to the short, medium and long term health of a child as well as the mother. It has been affirmed that failure to observe EBF in low income as well as high income countries ...

Drug use problem in Kenya is a near catastrophe, and researches done variously indicate an increase especially among the adolescent abusers, with boys generally tending to abuse it more than girls. In this study the ...

Most studies have focused on the institutional and societal factors that influence school dropout rates among students. However, few studies have analysed the influence of parental roles in school dropout particularly among ...

Students’ indiscipline is a problem that has become common in most of Kenyan secondary schools. However, discipline of the adolescents in secondary schools is not an aspect of the school systems alone. Parents have a role ...

Home births continue to be witnessed in the informal settlements in spite of the risks involved, but it is not clear why they persist. The objectives of the study were to: establish whether there is any effect of social ...

The purpose of this study was to examine factors that were responsible for adolescent precocity in sexual matters. The study was also carried out to explore the consequences of adolescent sexual practices and to establish ...

Adolescence (teenage) is the transitional period between childhood and adulthood, characterized by biological, psychological, and social changes. Self-esteem of adolescents is generally low and when an adolescent becomes ...