Master's Thesis from the year 2019 in the subject Pedagogy - Pedagogic
Psychology, grade: 3.50, University of Ilorin, course: Educational
Guidance and Counselling, language: English, abstract: This study
investigated the prevalence and causes of drug abuse relapse as
expressed by clients in NDLEA rehabilitation centers in North Central,
Nigeria. The study also examined the influence of demographic variables
of parental occupational status, educational attainment, marital status
and age on respondents' views. The descriptive survey design was adopted
for the study. Censors sampling method, that is, only the available
clients or respondents at all rehabilitation centers in the North
central region was used. A researcher-designed questionnaire on
"Prevalence and Causes of Drug Abuse Relapse" was used to collect
relevant data. The instrument had reliability co-efficient of 0.69 using
test re-test method. Out of 175 questionnaire forms administered, 169
were retrieved and 159 were valid for data analysis. All the hypotheses
were tested using t-test and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) statistics at
0.05 level of significance. Among other findings, the main findings of
the study revealed that drug abuse relapse is moderately prevalent among
clients in NDLEA rehabilitation centers in North Central, Nigeria and
the main causes are easy availability of drugs, drug abuse environment,
frequent passing through drug using site such as bar parlor and smoking
joint, and being in companying of drug users. Based on the findings of
the study, it was recommended among others that counsellors should equip
the relatives and families of clients with some social skills training
such as human relation skills that they can employ in persuading their
wards who have received treatment to avoid returning to the company of
friends or environment that can still expose them again to the abuse of
drugs.
