Sin título

Knowledge,Attitudes, and substance use practices Among street chldren in western Keny.

keywords:

substance use; street children ; resourse-constrained ;Knowlenge; attitudes; inhalants.

Methodology

study setting

Study population

Elegibility

Recruitment and enrolment

Protection of Human Subjects

Data colletion

Study Outcomes and variables

Results

Statical Analysis

sociodemographip charateristics

Substance Use Knowlenge and attitudes

Substances use Practrices

Discussion

Conclusion

Snowball Sampling (N=146)

the study was minimal risk

A cross-selectional survey

was dessigned within

the Konowledge

Date were entered Epic(3.5.1)

from paper-based, bivariate analysis (p<0.05)),

using X^2 was used to test the associations

between selected variables and

the outcomes of interest

the high prevalence of substance use found among street-involed children and youth in the present study is in the line whith findings from other resource-constrained settings

Study´s strengths and Limitations

the nonrandow recruitment and sampling of participants though active outreach and a snowball sampling techinque is prone to selection bias

the findings have major implications for the development of interventions for street-involed children and youth in Kenya and other resourse-constrained settings

Classification of street-involed child and sex

Children were recruited though street out reach to participate in a cross-selectional survery from to July, 2011.

children and youth aged 10-19 , classified as either children on the street or children of the street.

Eldoret is a town in Kenya

Authors:

Lonnie Embleton, David Ayuku, Lukoye Atwoli, Rachel V, and Paula Braitstein

The primary objetive

of this study is

to discribe the knowledge and attitudes toward substance use among a community-based

street-involed children and young 10-19 years in western Kenya, and how knowledge

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relate to their substance use practices

and attitudes