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Substance abuse and their social effects on adolescents in Uganda: a study of secondary school students in Nakawa division, Kampala district
(Makerere University, 2008-12)
Preventing substance abuse by adolescents has been one of the agendas of the government of Uganda for a long time. Government has tried its best using various policies and legislations to curb the habit of substance abuse ...
Decentralization and the delivery of adolescent sexual and reproductive health services in Sironko District: 1990-2005
(Makerere University, 2009)
Uganda is one of the countries in sub Saharan Africa that has embraced the system of decentralization, with the sole aim of ensuring that services move closer to the communities. Decentralisation is supposed to improve the ...
Substance abuse and their social effects on adolescents in Uganda: A study of secondary school students in Nakawa Division, Kampala District
(Makerere University, 2008-12)
Preventing substance abuse by adolescents has been one of the agendas of the government of Uganda for a long time. Government has tried its best using various policies and legislations to curb the habit of substance abuse ...
Parenting styles and adolescent drug abuse
(Makerere University, 2009-09)
The study was conducted in five mixed day secondary schools in Kampala District. It took a correlation approach to investigate on the relationship between parenting styles and adolescent drug abuse, the frequency of drug ...
Correlates of sexual initiation among never-married adolescents in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2009-12)
It has been widely mentioned and empirically examined that a variety of individual characteristics of the adolescent have large independent effects on adolescents' sexual
behavior, but also exercise net effects through ...
Socio-economic status (SES), reproductive health knowledge (RHK), parent-adolescents relationship (PAR) and HIV/AIDS-risk behavior
(Makerere University, 2009)
This study set out to investigate the relationships between socio-economic background and Reproductive Health Knowledge of adolescents, Parents- Adolescent relationship, and vulnerability to HIV / AIDS-risk behavior. This ...
The negotiation of sexual relationships among pupils in South-western Uganda.
(Taylor and Francis, 2001)
The objective of the study was to explore how school-going adolescents in south-western Uganda negotiate sexual relationships. Qualitative data were obtained from 15 boys and 15 girls (14-18 years old), during a series of ...
Socializing influences and the value of sex: The experience of adolescent school girls in rural Masaka, Uganda.
(Taylor and Francis, 2001)
In order to explore the socializing influences which have shaped rural adolescent schoolgirls' views and values about sex in a high HIV prevalence area of Uganda, detailed qualitative data was obtained over a one year ...