Co-occurrence of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug use among university students in Brazil
Objective: To estimate the prevalence of co-occurrence of alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drug use among students at a public university in a municipality in Southern Brazil, and to evaluate the factors associated with this practice. Methods: Cross-sectional study conducted with undergraduate students...
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| author | Gbènankpon Mathias Houvèssou Isabel Oliveira Bierhals Betina Daniele Flesch Mariângela Freitas da Silveira |
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| description | Objective: To estimate the prevalence of co-occurrence of alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drug use among students at a public university in a municipality in Southern Brazil, and to evaluate the factors associated with this practice. Methods: Cross-sectional study conducted with undergraduate students between November 2017 and July 2018, to whom a digital self-administered questionnaire was applied. The relationship between the dependent variables co-occurrence of alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drug use and co-occurrence of alcohol and illicit drug use was analyzed using binary logistic regression with a 95% confidence interval. Results: Of the 1,824 university students, 92.0% consumed alcohol in their lifetime, 11.0% smoked, 43.9% used at least one illicit drug in their lifetime, and 23.3% used at least one illicit drug in the last 30 days. The rate of co-occurrence of alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drug use was 5.2%, and it was associated with belonging to the highest economic class (p = 0.0003), experimenting with drugs before the age of 18 (p = 0.0013), and attending an exact sciences or land/agricultural sciences program (p = 0.0386). The prevalence of co-occurrence of alcohol and illicit drug use was 13.6%, and it was associated with belonging to the highest economic class (p = 0.0000), male gender (p = 0.0323), depression (p = 0.0001), experimentation with alcohol before the age of 18 (p = 0.0000), attending a linguistics or arts and literature program (p = 0.0314) and living alone/with friends (p = 0.0000). Conclusion: The co-occurrence of alcohol and drug use was higher than the co-occurrence of use of the three substances, and factors such as experimenting with drugs before the age of 18 and being of higher economic status were associated with these patterns. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-054336f294fd458592a2653eeda7aa652022-12-21T17:17:24ZporUniversidade de FortalezaRevista Brasileira em Promoção da Saúde1806-12302021-03-013411310.5020/18061230.2021.10506Co-occurrence of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug use among university students in BrazilGbènankpon Mathias Houvèssou0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3401-2547Isabel Oliveira Bierhals1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8739-8669Betina Daniele Flesch2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4245-3131Mariângela Freitas da Silveira3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2861-7139Universidade Federal de PelotasUniversidade Federal de PelotasUniversidade Federal de PelotasUniversidade Federal de PelotasObjective: To estimate the prevalence of co-occurrence of alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drug use among students at a public university in a municipality in Southern Brazil, and to evaluate the factors associated with this practice. Methods: Cross-sectional study conducted with undergraduate students between November 2017 and July 2018, to whom a digital self-administered questionnaire was applied. The relationship between the dependent variables co-occurrence of alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drug use and co-occurrence of alcohol and illicit drug use was analyzed using binary logistic regression with a 95% confidence interval. Results: Of the 1,824 university students, 92.0% consumed alcohol in their lifetime, 11.0% smoked, 43.9% used at least one illicit drug in their lifetime, and 23.3% used at least one illicit drug in the last 30 days. The rate of co-occurrence of alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drug use was 5.2%, and it was associated with belonging to the highest economic class (p = 0.0003), experimenting with drugs before the age of 18 (p = 0.0013), and attending an exact sciences or land/agricultural sciences program (p = 0.0386). The prevalence of co-occurrence of alcohol and illicit drug use was 13.6%, and it was associated with belonging to the highest economic class (p = 0.0000), male gender (p = 0.0323), depression (p = 0.0001), experimentation with alcohol before the age of 18 (p = 0.0000), attending a linguistics or arts and literature program (p = 0.0314) and living alone/with friends (p = 0.0000). Conclusion: The co-occurrence of alcohol and drug use was higher than the co-occurrence of use of the three substances, and factors such as experimenting with drugs before the age of 18 and being of higher economic status were associated with these patterns.https://periodicos.unifor.br/RBPS/article/view/10506alcohol drinkingsmokingillicit drugssubstance-related disorders |
| spellingShingle | Gbènankpon Mathias Houvèssou Isabel Oliveira Bierhals Betina Daniele Flesch Mariângela Freitas da Silveira Co-occurrence of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug use among university students in Brazil Revista Brasileira em Promoção da Saúde alcohol drinking smoking illicit drugs substance-related disorders |
| title | Co-occurrence of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug use among university students in Brazil |
| title_full | Co-occurrence of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug use among university students in Brazil |
| title_fullStr | Co-occurrence of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug use among university students in Brazil |
| title_full_unstemmed | Co-occurrence of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug use among university students in Brazil |
| title_short | Co-occurrence of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug use among university students in Brazil |
| title_sort | co occurrence of alcohol tobacco and illicit drug use among university students in brazil |
| topic | alcohol drinking smoking illicit drugs substance-related disorders |
| url | https://periodicos.unifor.br/RBPS/article/view/10506 |
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