Sociodemographic differences, prevalence, and patterns of energy drink consumption among Jazan university students, Saudi Arabia

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Consumption patterns of energy drinks in university students: A systematic review and meta-analysis

“…The evaluation of ED consumption frequency is based on a weekly report for most of the studies [34,36,39,43,50,58,67,71,74,80,84,88,90,91,93,94,96] or divided into daily, weekly, monthly and rarely consumption, or else [38,45,47,53,70,82,83,92] Some of them reported the proportion of occasional and regular users [20,45,57,61,85] or describe the number of ED cans in a specific period. [20,35,54,57,67,74,80,90]. As for the prevalence of ED users, it ranges from 9% reported in the study by Picard-Masson et al [83] to 90.6% in the study by Shaikh et al [90] With regards to the geographic areas, prevalence values ranged from 11.5 to 90.6% [51,90] in Asian countries, from 9.1 to 87.6% [83,43] in North America, from 10.8 to 75.8% ...…”

“…The bibliographic and scientometric data for all articles were reported in Table S2. 25 of 71 papers were published on journals which do not have the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) [35,[37][38][39]41,43,45,[52][53][54]60,61,64,67,70,[72][73][74]78,79,87,90,92,95] 18 journals have JIF between 0.219 and 1.883 while 27 have JIF between 2.333 and 7.325 and only one has a JIF above the threshold of 20 [40].…”

“…[17, 44-47, 55, 57, 61, 71] Forty-eight studies investigated the reason why EDs were used. The majority of them (37 studies) reported reasons related to study and examinations [17, 21, 33, 35-37, 39, 41, 43-47, 50, 53, 55-59, 61, 62, 65, 69, 72-74, 77-79, 81, 82, 85-87, 90, 98], while in 21 studies users declared ED consumption to keep themselves awake or alert [17, 33, 35, 39, 45, 48, 50, 54, 56-58, 62, 65, 67, 69, 79, 85-87, 89, 92] and in 18 studies reasons related to physical activity/sport performance were reported [17,33,35,37,39,45,46,48,53,56,57,71,66,69,74,86,87,91].…”