PATTERNS OF AND PREVENTION STRATEGIES FOR HEALTH RISK BEHAVIOURS AMONG IN- SCHOOL ADOLESCENTS IN JIGAWA STATE, NIGERIA

📄 Project Abstract

Health risk behaviours among adolescents is a major health concern globally. This is because these behaviours are associated with serious life-threatening consequences among adolescents in both developed and developing nations, including Nigeria. The impact of health risk behaviours (HRBs) on health is of such magnitude that it has become one of the priorities of national and international health organizations, Rutter and Quine, in Baban & Cracium (2007). These organizations have been initiating programmes with a view to curbing this menace globally. The global estimates of some identified risk behaviours of significance to warrant global concern include, suicide with a prevalence of 7.4 per 100,000 (Wasserman, Cheng, & Jiang, 2005), 185 million drug abusers and 2 billion alcohol users globally (WHO, 2002). According to Onifade, Somoye, Ogunwobi, Ogunwale, Akinhanmi and Adamson (2011), Nigeria has the highest one-year prevalence rate of Cannabis use (14.3%) in Africa. Although, data on...