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CPS1899 Ira Joy H.M.
a polydrug user to school non-completion (OR= 1.62). This association can be
expected as a result of school disengagement or loss of interest in going to
school among drug users.
The odds of engaging in drug use is 2.24 times higher for those who have
worked for pay in cash or in kind relative to those who have not. Other studies
whose population involves those are in labor force, however, shows that drug
use reduces job employment. But in this study which involves 15 to 24 years
old, youths who are working for pay can indicate independence and
opportunity of handling their own money. Having a money of your own can
be an added opportunity to access vices, especially expensive vices like drugs,
compared to youths who have no work yet or no other source of income other
than their allowances from parents.
Lastly, youths who had ever read pornographic or sexually explicit
books/magazines/tabloids have a higher risk of engaging in the use of drugs
than those who do not (OR= 2.7). A study (Sacop, 2006) on sexual risk also
showed that using drugs has one the highest associations with engaging in
sexual activities. This association could be explained by the knowledge that
both behaviors are a byproduct of a behavioral problem on the loss of control
and compulsiveness.
In assessing the model, several tests were performed. The Likelihood ratio
test yielded a p-value <.0001, hence the generated model is better than the
model without the predictors. The receiver operating characteristic (ROC)
curve also covered an area that is approximately 87.6% which is greater than
70%. This implies that the model has a good predictive power. Hosmer-
Lemeshow goodness-of-fit test also showed that the model is well-fitted with
p-value=0.1064. About 79.94% of the observations were also correctly
predicted by the model with sensitivity and specificity 79.44% and 79.96%
respectively.
Drug use prevention programs for Filipino youth can incorporate the
factors identified by targeting modifiable risk factors, and strengthening the
identified protective factors. These results may help the parents to develop
positive preventive actions, the educators to strengthen learning and work
with others in their school system to review their current programs, the media
to have thorough classification and reviews to media materials accessible to
the youth, the community leaders to assess and monitor community risks, and
the government to partner with people in schools, clubs, faith-based
organizations, and media to reduce the risks and to build, develop, and
implement programs and policies preventing or reducing the drug use among
Filipino youth.

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