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