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Effect of Substance Use on Academic Performance among Undergraduate Students In The University Of Abuja, Nigeria
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Copyright Year | 2016 |
| Abstract | Studies have shown that alcohol, drug use and drug dependence have had major impacts on families, and workers’/students’ productivity, performance, efficiency at the workplace and academics respectively. Also, antiques have it that many cultures have found ways of altering consciousness by the intake of substances. Ideally, proper handling of issues arising from substance use by university students will reflect on our nation’s workforce. This paper therefore seeks to examine the effect of substance use on academic performance among undergraduates in the Nigerian universities. Full-time 300 and 400 level students were recruited for the study. The respondents were asked to indicate whether or not they had ever used any of the listed drugs in 30 days, one year and lifetime use. Study difficulty was measured using University College London Study Difficulty Questionnaire UCLSQ. Data collected were analysed using SPSS 16 and multivariate analysis of Variance and Fisher’s exact test were used. The result showed that 323 (53.8%) of the study population had study difficulty. Of this, 76.7% who used one substance or the other had study difficulty. The study showed a correlation between academic performance and the use/ abuse of substance among Nigerian Undergraduate students at the University of Abuja. Observed also was that 83% of study population who used/abused psychoactive substances and had psychiatric morbidity and study difficulty had brain fag syndrome. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.questjournals.org/jrhss/papers/vol4-issue3/H436271.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
