Do Importance of Religious Faith and Healthy Lifestyle Modify the Relationships Between Depressive Symptoms and Four Indicators of Alcohol Consumption? A Survey of Students Across Seven Universities in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland

Ansari, Wahlid El; Sebena, Rene; Stock, Christiane

doi:10.3109/10826084.2013.824476

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“…Others [86] found significant relationships between monthly income and being ever substance user but undertook only bivariate analysis, not controlling for a range of factors. Finally, our finding that lower levels of religiosity were associated with higher likelihood of engagement in four alcohol behaviors agrees with that religiosity was negatively associated with frequency of drinking and HED among both genders [56]. Religiosity is a factor associated with the protection of individuals against alcohol consumption [87][88][89].…”

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confidence: 72%

“…The Health and Wellbeing Questionnaire employed in student health and wellbeing surveys. The tool was used and field-tested among university student populations across many countries [7,38,42,48,[56][57][58][59]. The questionnaire included sociodemographic information (e.g., sex age, marital status, parental education, accommodation during university terms, income sufficiency, and religiosity, i.e., importance of religious faith), academic related questions (e.g., year and discipline of study at university, importance of achieving good grades, and academic performance compared to peers), as well as self-reported health behavior data (e.g., five alcohol consumption behaviors, HED, problem drinking, and possible alcohol dependence).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Is Alcohol Consumption Associated with Poor Perceived Academic Performance? Survey of Undergraduates in Finland

Ansari

Salam

Suominen

2020

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The relationship between academic performance and alcohol consumption among students remains inconsistent. We assessed this relationship, controlling for sociodemographic characteristics across seven faculties at the University of Turku (1177 undergraduates). An online questionnaire assessed: seven sociodemographic characteristics (age, gender, year/discipline of study, accommodation type, being in intimate relationship, parental education, and income sufficiency); two perceived academic performance (students’ subjective importance of achieving good grades and students’ appraisal of their academic performance compared to peers); and six alcohol consumption behaviors (length of time, amount consumed, frequency, heavy episodic drinking, problem drinking, and possible alcohol dependence). Simple logistic regression assessed relationships between sociodemographic and academic variables with alcohol consumption behaviors; multiple logistic regression assessed the same relationships after controlling for all other variables. Students reported long duration and large amount of drinking (46% and 50%), high frequency of drinking (41%), heavy episodic drinking (66%), problem drinking (29%), and possible alcohol dependence (9%). After controlling, gender was associated with all alcohol consumption behaviors, followed by religiosity (associated with four alcohol behaviors), living situation, marital status, age (each associated with two alcohol behaviors), and parental education and year of study (each associated with one alcohol behavior). Study discipline, income sufficiency, importance of achieving good grades, and academic performance compared to peers were not associated with any alcohol behaviors. Universities need to assess problem drinking and alcohol use disorders among students. Prevention strategies are required to reduce risk. Health promotion efforts could focus on beliefs and expectations about alcohol and target student groups at risk for more efficient and successful efforts.

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Is Alcohol Consumption Associated with Poor Perceived Academic Performance? Survey of Undergraduates in Finland

Ansari

Salam

Suominen

2020

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“…Ruiz, González, Vera, & Azancot, (2011) also found that religion can act as a protective factor among the university population against health and nutritional behaviour and habits. Similar results have been described in other countries with a university population of different religious denominations (El Ansari, Sebena & Stock, 2014;Neighbors et al, 2013). However Tanton, Dodd, Woodfield, & Mabhala, (2015) found different result.…”

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Meal Taking Behaviour and Its Associated Factors Among Medical Students in a Public University in Malaysia

Fadzly¹,

Kee²,

Rahmawati

2018

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Background: Poor meal taking behaviour is a critical public health issue which may lead to poor health and economic burden among people. Food preference starts early and continue to adulthood. Materials and Methods:This cross-sectional study was conducted among randomly selected 304 medical students at a university in Malaysia, with the aim to determine their meal taking behaviour and the factors influencing these behaviours. Descriptive and analytic statistics were used to analyse the data collected using pre-tested and validated questionnaire. Chi square test was used to determine the association and significant level is set at p<0.05. Result:The response rate of was 83.2%. Most of respondents are 21 year old (29.6%), female (74.7%), Malay (60.1%), Muslim (60.9%) and from high socio-economic status family (60.1%). The percentage of respondents who have good and poor meal taking behaviour are almost similar, at 49.4% and 50.6%, respectively. Age, race and religion and source of food taken for breakfast were found to have statistically significant association with good meal taking behaviour. Conclusion:Students should be encouraged to have their meals in a proper time, with good quality and quantity of foods while taking consideration of their food preference. Health education can play a part in increasing the proportion of students with good meal taking behaviour.

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“…The scope of the current research is in line with other general student health and wellbeing surveys undertaken in a number of countries [ 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 ].…”

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Are Students’ Symptoms and Health Complaints Associated with Perceived Stress at University? Perspectives from the United Kingdom and Egypt

Ansari

Oskrochi

Haghgoo

2014

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This cross-sectional survey assessed and compared by country, the levels and correlates of 21 self-reported symptoms/health complaints. We examined the associations between self-reported symptoms and perceived stress. Data was collected from universities in the United Kingdom and Egypt (N = 3706 and 3271 undergraduates, respectively). A self-administered questionnaire assessed a range of self-reported symptoms, perceived stress, sociodemographic (gender, age, marital status, year of study, living arrangements during semester, income sufficiency), lifestyle (tobacco smoking, illicit drug/s use, alcohol consumption frequency), and health variables (subjective health status, health awareness, BMI), along with religiosity, and quality of life. Factor analysis categorized the 21 self-reported symptoms into four components. Correlation analysis and linear regression tested the associations between the self-reported symptoms and stress. Factor analysis of the health symptoms generated four symptom groups for each of the UK and Egypt (psychological; circulatory/breathing; gastrointestinal; and, pains/aches), and factor loadings were quite similar for both countries. Whilst the two samples showed similarities as to the kind of symptoms most frequently reported by students, the Egyptian sample had significantly higher frequency than the UK for every symptom. Frequent complaints (both countries) included difficulties to concentrate, fatigue, headaches, nervousness/anxiety, and back pain (UK) and mood swings (Egypt). Significantly more Egyptian students reported ≥4 symptoms over the past year than the UK. For each of the UK and Egypt, across each of the four symptom groups, there was a stepladder appearance whereby the frequency of symptoms increased with increasing quartiles of perceived stress. Not controlling for other variables, for both countries, there were significant positive correlations between each of the four symptom groups and stress; the highest correlation was for psychological symptoms. After controlling for sex, age country, and other symptom groups, stress was highly and significantly associated with psychological symptoms and also with pain & aches symptoms in both countries. UK students were generally less stressed than their counterparts in Egypt. Age and female gender were also associated with stress; the younger the student was the more likely to suffer from stress. Interactions were not significant. Across both countries, the levels of stress among students and the associations between perceived stress and health complaints suggest the need for a multiple approaches in order to understand the sources of stress; how college students experience stress; and, the coping mechanisms that different students employ to mitigate stress. Interventions aimed at both preventing, treating and caring for students’ distress, and also preventive strategies to help minimize the impact of stressful situations are required. Strategies that address both physical and psychological complaints may be beneficial for this popu...

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Do Importance of Religious Faith and Healthy Lifestyle Modify the Relationships Between Depressive Symptoms and Four Indicators of Alcohol Consumption? A Survey of Students Across Seven Universities in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland

Cited by 27 publications

References 63 publications

Is Alcohol Consumption Associated with Poor Perceived Academic Performance? Survey of Undergraduates in Finland

Is Alcohol Consumption Associated with Poor Perceived Academic Performance? Survey of Undergraduates in Finland

Meal Taking Behaviour and Its Associated Factors Among Medical Students in a Public University in Malaysia

Are Students’ Symptoms and Health Complaints Associated with Perceived Stress at University? Perspectives from the United Kingdom and Egypt

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