Publisher's Synopsis
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.
