University Students’ Views Regarding Reasons for Drug Abuse Among Youths

Didarloo, Alireza; Pourali, Reza

doi:10.5812/ijhrba.24778

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“…This study showed that the majority of students started using drugs in middle -late adolescents, while still in secondary school. This is consistent with the findings from other studies [29,[31][32][33].…”

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Prevalence and Patterns of Drug Abuse among Students of Tertiary Institutions in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria

2016

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Background: In recent time, there has been a rise in the use of alcohol and psychoactive substances and the associated consequences among Nigerian students in tertiary institutions. Despite being a major public health concern, there are few studies that examined prevalence of alcohol and drug use among students of different tertiary institutions at the same point in time. Method: The self-administered WHO Student Drug Use Questionnaire was used to collect data on drug use among 1233 college students from the Federal College of Education, Moshood Abiola Polytechnic and University of Agriculture all in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria. Results: The lifetime prevalence of use of one or more drugs of abuse was 69.2%. The highest lifetime prevalence rates were for alcohol (34.3%), tobacco (14.4%), hypnosedatives (8.8%) and cannabis (6.2%). The majority of respondents who abused psychoactive drugs initiated the habit in primary and secondary school. Alcohol use was more common among male students and Christians. It was also associated with parental drug use, parental educational level and marital status. Conclusion: This study showed a high prevalence of drug abuse among the students. There is a need for more studies on drug use among college students with a view to mapping out appropriate preventive and intervention programmes in Nigeria.

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Prevalence and Patterns of Drug Abuse among Students of Tertiary Institutions in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria

2016

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“…In the study at Urmia University of Medical Sciences, youth participants emphasized the role of peers in substance abuse. [ 7 ] This finding has also been confirmed in several other studies. [ 13 14 15 ] It seems that in addition to inducing role of addicted friends, availability of substance by friends increases the opportunity to facing with substance, tendency, and consumption as well as.…”

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confidence: 84%

“…[ 5 6 ] According to the latest estimates, high prevalence of addiction in young population has been reported. [ 7 8 ] Since the treatment of addiction is often useless and because the tendency toward consumption and context of addiction is provided before drug use begins,[ 9 10 ] therefore, we can identify the risk factors for this tendency and prevent one step earlier. The present study aimed to identify the risk factors for addiction potential in the students of Arak University of Medical Sciences.…”

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Risk factors for addiction potential among college students

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Background:Tendency toward addiction is provided before drug use begins. The present study aimed to identify the risk factors for addiction potential in the students of Arak University of Medical Sciences.Methods:We conducted this cross-sectional study among 305 students from Arak University of Medical Sciences, Iran in 2016. We selected the students by stratified random sampling and collected the data by family and sociodemographic factors questionnaires and Addiction Potential Scale.Results:Male students, students with low economic status and high family members were more prone to addiction. We identified variable; addiction in close friends, adverse family conditions (dispute with the family), poor economic condition of families, and family size by controlling the effect of other variables, as risk factors for addiction potential.Conclusions:Preventive and intervention actions appear necessary considering the mentioned factors.

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“…Accepting our second hypothesis, this finding proposes that neither of the coping measures have proven their effectiveness in reducing the perceived stress levels of college students. Das and others reported the prevalence of many unhealthy behaviours beginning in adolescence, and that substance abuse has had grave impact on individuals, families and communities [9]. It is important to note that individual and family factors can be important factors of substance abuse [10].…”

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confidence: 99%