Factors Influencing Drug Abuse Among Rural Secondary Students in Nyanaiya Division of Nyamira District, Kenya
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Date
2014-03-04
Authors
Ondima, Paul C.
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Abstract
Many secondary school students in Kenya are nowadays experimenting with drugs. This is
causing a lot of concern as drug abuse has been identified as a major cause of several of the
problems experienced by secondary school students in Kenya which range from: declining
educational standards to indiscipline and moral degmdation.
This study aimed at finding out the factors influencing drug use and abuse among rural
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secondary school snldents in Nyamaiya Division ofNyamim District. The study presentation has
been arranged in five chapters. Chapter one addresses the background information, statement of
the problem, research questions, significance and objectives of the study. Chapter two makes a
review of relevant literature to the study while chapter three describes the methodology that was
employed in sampling, collecting and analyzing the data. Chapter four has been dedicated to the
presentation of the results of the study and chapter five discuses the results of the study and gives
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the counselling and policy implications and suggestions for further research.
The population selected for this study consisted ofform three secondary school s-tudents (N=80);
their class teachers (No.4); the guidance and counselling teachers (N==4)and head teachers
(N==4).Random sampling technique was used in the selection of students while the teachers were
selected using purposive sampling.
The tools selected for data collection were self-report questionnaires for students and i-rn-. tervie__w
schedules for teachers. The researcher personally administered the questionnaires to students and
interviewed teachers using pre-prepared interview schedules. These tools covered all the broad
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dimensions set by the study's exploratory questions. Descriptive statistics was used to organize
data to answer the three research questions of the study. The data is presented in tables indicating
frequencies, percentages and ranks; while visual presentation of the same data is done using
figures. Due to the nature of this research, the technique chosen for testing the hypotheses
investigated was the chi-square tl) method. All tests of significance were done at the alpha ( a )
level of 0.05.
The results ofthe study show that home made alcohol- changaa and busaa were the most abused
drugs and there was a significant difference between the abuse of these brews and other drugs. It
was also established that drug abuse is most prevalent in mixed schools and least prevalent in
girls boarding schools. It was also discovered that the major contributing factors in drug abuse
were availability of drugs and peer pressure. These results were noted for their counselling and
policy implications. The implications were then translated into general recommendations and
suggestions for further research.
In this study, the 'prima facie' sources of information were the students. Teachers provided
complementary infurmation. Other important sources included published literature and previous
researches relevant to this study.
Description
Department of Educational Psychology, 112p. The HV 5808 .O53 2005
Keywords
Drug abuse-Kenya-Nyamira district--Nyamaiya division