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Determinants Of Drug Usage Among Females As Perceived By Secondary School Teachers
[A CASE STUDY OF ILORIN SOUTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA]
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The researcher personally administered 200 questionnaire forms to the
participants of this study. A clear instruction as to how to complete
the questionnaire forms was provided at the beginning of each section of
the questionnaire. Administering the instrument personally offered the
researcher the opportunity of having useful interaction with the
respondents for the sake of further explanation on the purpose of the
study. All questionnaire form were collected by the researcher after
each administration and completion.
Scoring Procedure
The DDUQ
instructs the respondents answer each statement to the degree of their
agreement or disagreement. The items were scored as follows: -
Strongly Agree - 4 points
Agree - 3 points
Disagree - 2 point
Strongly Disagreed - 1 point
The items were scored on a 4 points likert’s scale. The highest score for an item was 4 and the last was 1.
Method of Data Analysis
For the data analysis, t-test was considered appropriate for the
comparison of the mean scores of the respondents on the basis of gender,
age, marital status of parent, family type and religion background.
According to Adana (1996) a t-test is a parametric test often used by
researchers to compare the means of two groups while analysis of
Variance Procedure (ANOVA) was used for the comparison on faculty or
discipline. According to Adana (1996), Analysis of Variance procedure is
an inferential technique for comparing the means of two or more groups.
The hypotheses were tested using the t-test procedure and Analysis of
Variance Procedure.
The researcher adopted both descriptive and
inferential statistical to analyze the data collected for this study.
This is frequency count and simple percentages were used for the
demographic section while t-test and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) were
used to test the research hypotheses.
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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---
