@article{ref1,
title="Alcohol and cannabis intake in nursing students",
journal="Medicina (Lithuania)",
year="2019",
author="Tejedor-Cabrera, Carlos and Cauli, Omar",
volume="55",
number="10",
pages="e551100628-e551100628",
abstract="<i>Background and objectives:</i> Drug misuse among young people has become a major worldwide health concern. The present study analyzes substance misuse and its social and personal consequences in young university students. <i>Materials and Methods:</i> Screening of alcohol misuse was based on the Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT), while screening of substance-related risks and problems was performed with the Car, Relax, Alone, Forget, Friends, Trouble (CRAFFT) score. <i>Results</i>: The population was composed of nursing students at the University of Valencia (Valencia, Spain) (n = 185). More than 50% of the surveyed students reported alcohol intake based on the CRAFFT scale; 31.4% were classified as having &quot;risky alcohol use&quot;, and 19.5% met the criterion for hazardous drinking based on the AUDIT score. In turn, 34.1% of the sample reported marijuana/hashish intake based on the CRAFFT scale. A gender effect was only observed for marijuana/hashish use, which was significantly (<i>p</i> < 0.001) higher in male students. No other gender differences were observed. In the logistic regression analysis, only age was identified as a protective factor for obtaining a reduced risk score with both the AUDIT and the CRAFFT. Among the social and personal consequences of drug misuse, the inability to &quot;stop drinking once you have started&quot; or the inability to &quot;remember what happened while consuming&quot; was significantly associated with an increased frequency of alcohol consumption (OR 20.93, <i>p</i> < 0.0001 and OR 13.68, <i>p</i> < 0.05, respectively). <i>Conclusions:</i> Our findings are consistent with emerging social concerns about drug misuse in the university population, including nursing students as future healthcare professionals.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1010-660X",
doi="10.3390/medicina55100628",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina55100628"
}