Smoking and alcohol consumption among university students of the healthcare area
| Autor: | Ítalo de Sousa Nóbrega, Jhonatan Thiago Lacerda-Santos, Daniely de Moura Brilhante, Arnaldo de França Caldas Júnior, Jalber Almeida dos Santos, Gélica Lima Granja, Ana Flávia Granville-Garcia |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test business.industry 030503 health policy & services media_common.quotation_subject Public health education Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Prevalence Physical education 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Epidemiology Health care Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Habit 0305 other medical science business Demography media_common Biomedical sciences |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Public Health. 28:45-52 |
| ISSN: | 1613-2238 2198-1833 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10389-018-01011-x |
| Popis: | To investigate the prevalence of alcohol and tobacco consumption as well as behavioral and socio-demographic aspects among undergraduate students in the healthcare area of a Brazilian private university. A cross-sectional study was conducted with undergraduate students in health sciences courses, with randomized probabilistic sampling proportional to the number of students in each course. Two trained researchers, by means of a socio-demographic and behavioral questionnaire, carried out the data collection. One questionnaire related to the smoking habit and the other the Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test. The data were entered and organized in SPSS software, version 20.0 for Windows (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences), presented through descriptive (absolute and percentage distribution) and analytic statistics. The total sample was composed of 317 students (29.7% male and 70.3% female). The prevalence rate of nicotine consumption was 3.2% and hazardous alcohol consumption 31.9% among university students. It was verified that the habit of smoking was more prevalent among male students (p = 0.007). The hazardous use of alcohol was proportionally greater among male undergraduates (p |
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