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Determinants Of Drug Usage Among Females As Perceived By Secondary School Teachers
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CHAPTER THREE
METHODOLOGY
Introduction
In this chapter the method and procedure used in carrying out the investigation are presented. This includes the research design, sample and sampling procedure, instrumentation, (validity and reliability), procedure for data administration and collection, scoring procedure and method of data analysis.
Research Design
This research adopts the descriptive survey method dealing with eliciting information on the factors responsible for females’ involvement in drugs use. This method enables the researcher to collect data from large number of people within a reliability short period of time.
Durosaro (1985) described descriptive survey as the method that enables researcher to gather information from representative sample in which inference are drawn on the behaviour of the population. The researcher considered descriptive survey method for this present study because she wanted to find out factors responsible for females involvement in drugs use as perceive by secondary school teachers of Ilorin South Local Government Area.
Sample and Sampling Procedure
The target populations of this study were secondary school teachers in Ilorin South Local Government Area.
Instrumentation
The main instrument for this study was a questionnaire tagged of Determinants Drug Use Questionnaire (DDUQ). The questionnaire was developed by the researcher. Relevant information from the related literature review from the basis for the development of the questionnaire.
Section A of the questionnaire consisted the needed background or demographic information of the respondents, such as gender, age, marital status and religion of respondents.
Section B of the questionnaire consisted 20 items and it was subdivided into different categories such as personal factors, social factors, psychological factors and family factors. The respondents were required to indicate the strongly Agree (SA), Agree (A), Disagree (D) or Strongly Disagree SD) with the factors, responsible for females, youths abuse drugs.
Psychometric Properties of the Instrument
Validity of the Instrument
A measuring instrument is said to be valid when measures truly and accurately the qualities and abilities one want to measures (Adewunmi, 1988). Oba (1990) also stated that validity is the degree which a test measures what it actually purports to measure and rolling but what one want to measure, for this reason, the researcher gave the constructed instrument to experts in the Department of Guidance and Counselling to vet for content validity. The vetted instrument was submitted the supervisor for screening. Modification and suggestions were effected, thus ensuring the validity of the instrument.
Reliability of the Instrument
Oladele (1987) defined reliability as the consistency, accuracy stability and trust worthiness of a measuring instrument of score obtain that is how far the same test (or a similar one) will give the same results if it can be done again by the same workers on different occasions or with set of equivalent items under the same conditions. Therefore the reliability of an instrument yields consistent scores when it is administered a number of times.
The reliability of the test was established using the test-retest method. The instrument was administered twice to 20 students (both males and females).
The time interval was four weeks. The scores from the first administration were correlated with the score from the second administration using Pearson Product Moment Correlation Co-efficient formula. The correction result was 0.81 and this show that the instrument was reliable.
Procedure for Data Administration and Collection
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]ABSTRACT The study examined the determinants of drug usage among females as perceived by secondary school teachers in Ilorin South Local Government Area of Kwara State. Data were collected from 200 randomly selected teachers through drug usage among females as perceived by secondary school teacher questionnaire. The questionnaire was analysed using simple frequency counts and percentages. The study showed that the use of drug like India herm, cocaine, amphelamines, marijuana and cannabis ... Continue reading---
APPENDIX A - [ Total Page(s): 3 ]APPENDIX UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN FACULTY OF EDUCATION COUNSELLOR EDUCATION Factors Responsible for Female Involvement in Drugs Use Questionnaire (FRFIDUQ) Dear Respondent, This questionnaire is designed to find out factors responsible for female involvement in drug use as perceived by Undergraduate Students of University of Ilorin. Please kindly give sincere and objective responses to the items of this questionnaire. All information given will be treat with utmost confidentiality. All information s ... Continue reading---
LIST OF TABLES - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]LIST OF TABLES Table 1: Distribution of Respondents by Gender Table 2: Distribution of Respondent by Age Table 3: Distribution of Respondents by Marital Status Table 4: Distribution of the respondents by Religion Table 5: Ranking order Item by item Analysis of Responses Table 6: Summary Table for the Determinants of Drug Use among Females Table 7: Means Standard Deviations and t-values of Respondents’ Perception of the determina ... Continue reading---
TABLE OF CONTENTS - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]TABLE OF CONTENTSTitle Page Approval Page Dedication Acknowledgement Abstract Table of Contents List of Tables CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION Background to the Study Statement of the Problem Research Questions Research Hypotheses Purpose of the Study Significance of the Study Operational Definition of Terms Scope of the Study CHAPTER TWO: REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE Introduction Meaning, Nature and Concept of Drug Abuse Causes of Use of Dr ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 4 ]Research Questions1. What are the determinants of females’ involvement in drug as perceived by secondary school teachers of Ilorin South Local Government Area? 2. Is there any difference in the determinants of drug use among females as perceived by male and female respondents? 3. Is there any difference in the determinants of drug use among females as perceived by respondents on the basis of age? 4. Is there any difference in the determinant of drug use among ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER TWO - [ Total Page(s): 14 ]To summarize the hypothesized action of various drug on central nervous system. It is helpful to categorize some representative by the action they produce. These are as follows: a. Drug affecting arousal. These drugs probably mimic the effects of Norepirephrice (NE) by displacing this amine from peripheral adrenergic nerve ending. b. Drug affecting mood c. Drug affecting perception According to office of applied studies (2000): - Substance abuse can result ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER FOUR - [ Total Page(s): 7 ]Hypothesis ThreeThere is no significant difference in the determinant of drug us among female as perceived by respondents on the basis of Marital Status. Table 9 indicates that the calculated t-value of .31 is less than critical t-value of 1.96. Therefore hypothesis four which stated that “there is no significant difference in the factors responsible for females involvement in drugs use as perceived by respondents on the basis of marital status of parent was accepted because no significant ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER FIVE - [ Total Page(s): 3 ]Implication of findings The finding of this study revealed that: Agreed that social factors were ranked as the first major factor responsible for females involvement in drug use. Social factors include such factors as: “they want to prevent or abort pregnancy and the exposure through advertisements such on television newspaper, radio billboards etcâ€. The implication of these findings is that more females’ youths will engage in drug use because of the ra ... Continue reading---
REFRENCES - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]REFERENCESAdegoke, A.A. (2003). Adolescent in Africa. Revealing the problems of teenagers in a Contemporary Africa Society. Ibadan. Hadassay Publishing. Akinade, E.A. (2005). Dictionary of Guidance and Counselling. Counselling psychology.Australian Bureau of Statistics (2003). Overview of drug use a among women. Australia: Alc Research & Public Policy Series. Australian Bureau of Statistics (2004). Overview of drug use among women Australian: Alc Research & Public Policy Series.Australian Crime ... Continue reading---
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]ABSTRACT The study examined the determinants of drug usage among females as perceived by secondary school teachers in Ilorin South Local Government Area of Kwara State. Data were collected from 200 randomly selected teachers through drug usage among females as perceived by secondary school teacher questionnaire. The questionnaire was analysed using simple frequency counts and percentages. The study showed that the use of drug like India herm, cocaine, amphelamines, marijuana and cannabis ... Continue reading---