%0 Journal Article
%T Psychosocial skills intervention for substance use amongst street children in a Local Government Area in South west Nigeria
%A A.O Adebiyi
%A E.T Owoaje
%J -
%D 2017
%X Introduction: The unrestrained exposure to the street and its associated lifestyles make the street child vulnerable to substance use. However, the effectiveness of psycho-social skills intervention on the knowledge and use of these substances among street children in transitional communities has not been fully investigated, hence the need for this study.
%K A community interventional study was conducted with a total sample of 360 street children allocated to the intervention and control clusters. The knowledge of and psychosocial correlates of substance use were assessed and an interactive psycho-social skills intervention package implemented for the intervention group while the control group had an HIV/AIDS health education programme.
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