Illicit substance use among university students from seven European countries: A comparison of personal and perceived peer use and attitudes towards illicit substance use

Helmer, Stefanie M.; Mikolajczyk, Rafael; McAlaney, John; Vriesacker, Bart; Hal, Guido Van; Akvardar, Yıldız; Guillén-Grima, Francisco; Salonna, Ferdinand; Stock, Christiane; Dempsey, Robert C.; Bewick, Bridgette M.; Zeeb, Hajo

doi:10.1016/j.ypmed.2014.07.039

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“…The current study's results are consistent with North American studies demonstrating that students overestimate their peers' cannabis use behaviors and attitudes and that normative perceptions are predictive of personal cannabis use behaviors and attitudes (Arbour-Nicitopoulos et al, 2010;Bertholet et al, 2013;Kilmer et al, 2006;LaBrie et al, 2009;Martens et al, 2006;Neighbors et al, 2013; (Helmer et al, 2014), alcohol (e.g., McAlaney et al, 2015, and tobacco (Pischke et al, 2015). Compared with the perceived social norms associated with student alcohol and tobacco use, the perceived norms associated with student cannabis use are likely to be different because of the illicit status of cannabis.…”

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“…Data on alcohol, tobacco, and use of other illicit substances are reported in other articles (Helmer et al, 2014;McAlaney et al, 2015;Pischke et al, 2015). Participants rated their personal use and perceived peer use of natural forms of cannabis (e.g., marijuana, pot, hash, grass) in the past 2 months on a 10-point ordinal scale from never in my/their life to every day or nearly every day in the past 2 months.…”

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Normative Perceptions of Cannabis Use Among European University Students: Associations of Perceived Peer Use and Peer Attitudes With Personal Use and Attitudes

Dempsey

McAlaney

Helmer

et al. 2016

J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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ABSTRACT. Objective: Perceptions of peer behavior and attitudes exert considerable social pressure on young adults to use substances. This study investigated whether European students perceive their peers' cannabis use and approval of cannabis use to be higher than their own personal behaviors and attitudes, and whether estimations of peer use and attitudes are associated with personal use and attitudes. Method: University students (n = 4,131) from Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the Slovak Republic, Spain, Turkey, and the United Kingdom completed an online survey as part of the Social Norms Intervention for Polysubstance usE in students (SNIPE) Project, a feasibility study of a web-based normative feedback intervention for substance use. The survey assessed students' (a) personal substance use and attitudes and (b) perceptions of their peers' cannabis use (descriptive norms) and attitudes (injunctive norms). Results: Although most respondents (92%) did not personally use cannabis in the past 2 months, the majority of students thought that the majority of their peers were using cannabis and that their peers had more permissive attitudes toward cannabis than they did. When we controlled for students' age, sex, study year, and religious beliefs, perceived peer descriptive norms were associated with personal cannabis use (odds ratio [OR] = 1.42; 95% CI [1.22, 1.64]) and perceived injunctive norms were associated with personal attitudes toward cannabis use (OR = 1.46; 95% CI [1.09, 1.94]). Conclusions: European students appear to possess similar discrepancies between personal and perceived peer norms for cannabis use and attitudes as found in North American students. Interventions that address such discrepancies may be effective in reducing cannabis use. (J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs, 77, 740-748, 2016)

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Normative Perceptions of Cannabis Use Among European University Students: Associations of Perceived Peer Use and Peer Attitudes With Personal Use and Attitudes

Dempsey

McAlaney

Helmer

et al. 2016

J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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“…An overview of the entire study, including a description of all work packages, the recruitment (including settings and locations) for the study, the registration process and the intervention, is provided elsewhere (Pischke et al, 2012;Helmer et al, 2014). Study registration started October 25 th 2011.…”

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Normative misperceptions of tobacco use among university students in seven European countries: Baseline findings of the ‘Social Norms Intervention for the prevention of Polydrug usE’ study

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Helmer

McAlaney

et al. 2015

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“…Helmer et al, en un estudio que busca evaluar el uso de sustancias ilícitas en universitarios de siete países Europeos, reportó que el 8.3% de los estudiantes consumieron drogas alguna vez en sus vidas 23 . Además, Páez refirió que el consumo de este tipo de sustancias se asocian al ingreso a la universidad y en mayor proporción al primer año de carrera 24 .…”

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Estilos De Vida De Estudiantes Universitarios De Ciencias De La Salud

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RESUMENObjetivos: El objetivo de este artículo es realizar una revisión de las publicaciones que revelen el impacto de los estilos de vida en la salud integral de estudiantes universitarios del área ciencias de la salud. Métodos : La revisión fue efectuada mediante búsqueda electrónica de artículos relacionados con estilos de vida en estudiantes universitarios pertenecientes a las escuelas de ciencias de la salud. Las fuentes de búsqueda fueron ISI, SCIELO, MEDLINE, BVS y PUB-MED. Los términos de búsqueda fueron: estilo de vida, estudiantes universitarios y ciencias de la salud. Para esta revisión se seleccionaron los artículos publicados que tuvieron experiencias investigativas desde el 2010 a la actualidad y los que incluyeron aspectos teórico-conceptuales se consideró los publicados desde el año 2000. Resultados: De los 83 artículos revisados, se descartaron 38 por no cumplir con el criterio de haber realizado la investigación en el área de ciencias de la salud, y 12 fueron retirados por ser publicados antes del 2010, quedando solo 33 artículos para esta revisión bibliográfica. De los 33 artículos seleccionados, 18 estudios cumplieron con los criterios de investigación, 15 fueron considerados para incluir aspectos teórico -conceptuales. Respecto a la actividad física, un estudio evidenció que el 40% de los jóvenes universitarios no realiza ningún ejercicio físico; otra investigación demostró que solo el 44% de los estudiantes de ciencias de la salud practicaban los recomendados 30 minutos de ejercicio 5 días por semana. Además los patrones alimentarios de los estudiantes fueron inadecuados, haciéndose necesario un cambio en el 90% de la población, siendo la "comida chatarra" la que más consumieron los participantes. Por otro lado, los datos de un estudio revelaron que 1 de cada 5 de los estudiantes universitarios presentan alteraciones en su salud mental y el consumo de tabaco y/o drogas, aparece como factor de riesgo. Conclusión: La mayoría de los estudiantes universitarios de ciencias de la salud no aplican sus conocimientos en sus propios estilos de vida (alimentación, actividad física y demás prácti-cas). Esto revela la urgencia de crear programas universitarios que modifiquen y promuevan estilos de vida saludable.Palabras clave: Estilo de vida; Estudiantes universitarios; Ciencias de la salud; Sedentarismo; Actividad física; Alimentación saludable; Tabaquismo; Alcoholismo y bienestar mental (fuente: DeCS BIREME). ABSTRACTObjective: The purpose of this article is to conduct a systematic review of scientific papers that show the impact of lifestyles in integral health of university students who have chosen health sciences careers. Methods: The review was conducted by electronic search of articles related to lifestyles linked to university students from schools of health science. The search sources were ISI, SCIELO, MEDLINE, PUBMED and BVS. The search terms were: lifestyle, university students and health sciences. For this review published articles that had research experiences from 2010 up to date. Those a...

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Illicit substance use among university students from seven European countries: A comparison of personal and perceived peer use and attitudes towards illicit substance use

Cited by 55 publications

References 21 publications

Normative Perceptions of Cannabis Use Among European University Students: Associations of Perceived Peer Use and Peer Attitudes With Personal Use and Attitudes

Normative Perceptions of Cannabis Use Among European University Students: Associations of Perceived Peer Use and Peer Attitudes With Personal Use and Attitudes

Normative misperceptions of tobacco use among university students in seven European countries: Baseline findings of the ‘Social Norms Intervention for the prevention of Polydrug usE’ study

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