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Knowledge, Attitudes, and Substance Use Practices Among

Street Children in Western Kenya: Transversal study

Objective

Describe the knowledge of and attitudes toward substance use among street-involved

youth in Kenya.

characteristics of the study

retrospective temporality

Exposition

A non-probabilistic sampling with a snowball was used

number of measurements

they were made

A cross-sectional survey was designed within the Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices

(KAP) model.

was implemented with

questionnaires and interviews

with language appropriate to the population to be addressed

whose purpose was the collection of

characteristics of their environment and habits regarding consumption and knowledge about drugs

and stablish associations between variables, and multiple logistics

regression analysis was used to identify independent covariates

subjects of analysis

children and youth

residents in eldoret kenya, with ages between 10 and 19 years

classified as street children or children on the street

depending on the time of visiting their relatives

or

the time they stayed on the street

or

the degree of schooling

who had low socioeconomic status

who contributed to the snowball sampling mentioned above