The Influence Of Drug Abuse On Academic Performance Of secondary school students of sabotia Division Vihiga District Kenya

TABLE OF CONTENTS

DECLARATION .................................................................................................................................... ii

APPROVAL ........................................................................................................................................... ii

DEDICATION ....................................................................................................................................... iii

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ...................................................................................................................... iv

TABLE OF CONTENTS ........................................................................................... ········· .................... V

LIST OFT ABLES ................................................................................................................................ viii

LIST OF FIGURES ................................................................................................................................ ix

ClIAPTER ONE ............................................................................................................................. 10

1.0 INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................... 10

1.1 Background Infonnation .................................................................................................................. 10

l .2State111ent of the proble111 .................................................................................................................... 3

l .3Purpose of the study ........................................................................................................................... 3

1.4 Objectives of the study ...................................................................................................................... 3

1. 5Research Questions ............................................................................................................................ 3

1.6 Scope of the study ............................................................................................................................. 4

1. 7Significance of the study ..................................................................................................................... 4

CHAPTER TWO .............................................................................................................................. 5

2.0 LITERRATURE REVIEW ......................................................................................................... 5

2.1 Chapter overview ............................................................................................................................... 5

2.2 The Impacts of Drug Abuse on Academic Achievement.. ................................................................... 5

2.2The Reasons Why Students Abuse Drugs; ........................................................................................... 7

2.3 Gender and Peer Influence on Drugs Abuse ....................................................................................... 9

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Cl-IAPTER. Tl-IREE: IVIETHODOLOGY ....................................................................................... 10

3.0 Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 10

3. I Research design ............................................................................................................................... 10

3.2 Sampling and sampling procedure ................................................................................................... 10

3.2.1 Teachers ....................................................................................................................................... 10

3.2.2 Students ........................................................................................................................................ 11

3.3 Instruinents ...................................................................................................................................... 11

3.3.1 Questionnaires .............................................................................................................................. 11

3.3.2 Interviews ..................................................................................................................................... 11

3.3.3 Observations ................................................................................................................................. 11

3.4 San1pling procedure ......................................................................................................................... 12

3.5 Data Analysis .................................................................................................................................. 12

CIIAPTER FOUR .......................................................................................................................... 13

PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF RESEARCH FINDINGS ............. 13

4.0 Chapter Overview ............................................................................................................................ 13

4.1 The bio data of 84 respondents who were sampled for the study were as follows: ............................. 13

Figure 1: Bio data of respondents .......................................................................................................... 14

Figure2: Comparison of Teacher and Student Respondents .................................................................... 15

4.2Research Question One Revised ....................................................................................................... 15

Figure3: How learners feel after Using Drugs ........................................................................................ 16

4.3 Research Question Two Revisited .................................................................................................... 17

Figure 5: Drug users and Non- Users ..................................................................................................... 18

Figure: 6: Types of drugs abused ........................................................................................................... 19

Figure 7: Bar graph for the reasons for drug abuse ................................................................................ 20

Figure8: Teachers reasons why students abuse drugs ............................................................................. 21

4.4 Research Question Three Revisited .................................................................................................. 22

CHAPTER FIVE ............................................................................................................................ 24

DISCUSIONNS, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ................................................ 24

5.0 Chapter Overview ............................................................................................................................ 24

5.1 Discussion of Research Problem One: How does Drug abuse affect Academic performance? ......... 24