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Short term effect of an empowerment education intervention on substance use among adolescents living in peri-urban communities, Abuja, Nigeria


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Shuaibu, Hassana Ojonuba and Abdul Rahman, Haliza and Mohd Zulkefli, Nor Afiah (2022) Short term effect of an empowerment education intervention on substance use among adolescents living in peri-urban communities, Abuja, Nigeria. Journal of Medicine and Biomedicine, 6 (spec.1). 201 - 203. ISSN 2600-8173

Abstract

Physiological and emotional changes during adolescence increases their vulnerability to the adoption of risky behaviour such as substance use. Hence, adolescence has been reported to be a critical risk period for initiating the use of substances [1]. In Nigeria, research has shown a high prevalence of substance use among adolescents


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Medicine and Health Science
DOI Number: https://doi.org/10.37231/ajmb.2022.6.S1.586
Publisher: Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Malaysia.
Keywords: Substance use; Empowerment education; Adolescents
Depositing User: Ms. Nuraida Ibrahim
Date Deposited: 04 Dec 2023 08:22
Last Modified: 04 Dec 2023 08:22
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URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/103190
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