Alcohol consumption and awareness of its effects on health among secondary school students in Nigeria

Alcohol consumption by secondary school students is a major public health problem globally, but in many Nigerian countries, the level of intake of secondary school students and its impact on human health is still relatively unknown. The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which junior high school students are drinking alcohol and the adverse effect they have on human health.

In this survey, we used cross sectional survey design. A self-report questionnaire developed by researchers was conducted by representative samples of students in the research area (N = 1302). Analyze the data collected from respondents using the mean and t test.

As a result, junior high school students were consuming beer (55.2%) and local cocktail (51.5%) moderately, but girls junior high school students reported that consumption of these two kinds of alcoholic beverages was low (44.8%; 48.5%) did. The results also showed that in the surveyed area, consumption of distilled spirits is very low for boys and girls, while wine, sake, local sake and palm wine are consumed moderately regardless of gender. Finally, there is a big difference in understanding the adverse effects of drinking on the health of junior high school students of men and women.

We need to further reduce our alcohol intake and strengthen our efforts to improve the adverse effects of drinking alcohol on junior high school students on human health.

About the influence of colleagues on alcohol intake by junior high school students, 81.5% of participants agreed or strongly agreed that their influence would lead to school alcohol abuse. This means that many students are accustomed to taking alcohol from school friends. According to Siegel (2000), young people learn to drink alcohol from their colleagues, and these colleagues also support this custom. In Kanga (2008), members of these groups are ridiculed and refused to drink alcohol is not regarded as an adult, so students belonging to alcohol dependence firms may be themselves alcoholic We confirmed the discovery that there is

Alcohol consumption by secondary school students is a major public health problem globally, but in many Nigerian countries, the level of intake of secondary school students and its impact on human health is still relatively unknown. The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which junior high school students are drinking alcohol and the adverse effect they have on human health. As a result, junior high school students were consuming beer (55.2%) and local cocktail (51.5%) moderately, but girls junior high school students reported that consumption of these two kinds of alcoholic beverages was low (44.8%; 48.5%) did. The results also showed that in the surveyed area, consumption of distilled spirits is very low for boys and girls, while wine, sake, local sake and palm wine are consumed moderately regardless of gender.

Recognition of drinking and health effects of junior high school students in Nigeria

Achievements and future career prospects Therefore, this research was designed to determine the high proportion of alcohol consumption among students in the Mwimbi Province of Kenya. In this survey we conducted a sample survey of 320 third grade students in the Mwinbee district using a descriptive research design. The questionnaire was used as a survey tool to gather necessary data and SPSS 14.0 was used for data analysis. The survey results show that factors such as stress, alcohol background, lack of religious ethics, excessive pocket money, lack of family, low price of alcohol, alcohol supply, companion influence, unpleasant school situation, etc. caused juvenile alcohol abuse It suggests that it is connected.