Changes in Alcohol Use Among First Year University Students in Mexico

Strunin, Lee; Díaz-Martínez, Alejandro; Díaz-Martínez, L. Rosa; Kuranz, Seth; Hernández-Ávila, Carlos A.; Fernández-Varela, Héctor

doi:10.3109/10826084.2014.960591

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“…This prevalence is high for adult students belonging to higher educational levels, and moreover studying university degrees in health sciences, and supports the findings of recent studies developed among university students regarding the use of alcohol [30][31][32][33], cannabis [31,33,34], and other illicit drugs [31][32][33][34][35]. A study performed among Mexican university students suggested different factors associated with changes in role and status, friendship, and increased autonomy as reasons for alcohol use after entering university [32]. There were significant differences in the CRAFFT screening tool depending on the sociodemographic variables.…”

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Alcohol and Drug Use in European University Health Science Students: Relationship with Self-Care Ability

Colomer-Pérez

Chover-Sierra

Navarro-Martínez

et al. 2019

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Background: Drug abuse in university students is an emerging social and health issue. The present study assesses alcohol and abuse of other illicit drugs and the adverse consequences related to such use and its relationship with self-care agency among European university students. Methods: A multicenter cross-sectional study was performed among 592 European students from different health science degrees. The screening of alcohol abuse was evaluated with the Alcohol Use Disorder Test (AUDIT), and the screening for substance-related risks and problems was conducted with the Car, Relax, Alone, Forget, Friends, Trouble (CRAFFT) screening test. We analyzed the relationship of substance abuse with self-care agency, assessed by the Appraisal of Self-Care Agency Scale (ASA). Results: 51.4% of the surveyed students reported alcohol intake, 16.6% of the students consumed both alcohol and cannabis, 1.6 % reported alcohol and other illicit drugs, and 3.7% consumed alcohol, marijuana, and other illicit drugs (73.3% of students reported alcohol intake alone or together with cannabis/hashish and/or other illicit drugs). The self-care agency scores were significantly different among groups in relation to certain sociodemographic factors such as gender (p = 0.008) and country of residence (p = 0.031). The self-care agency scores significantly correlated (p = 0.001) with the personal motivations and consequences related to the consumption of drugs of abuse evaluated by the CRAFFT screening tool. Within the ASA domains, the most significant effects were observed regarding the subdomains of resources, awareness, and health behaviors. Conclusions: Self-care agency should be promoted to counteract the health and social consequences of the consumption of drugs of abuse among university students who will be future health care professionals.

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Alcohol and Drug Use in European University Health Science Students: Relationship with Self-Care Ability

Colomer-Pérez

Chover-Sierra

Navarro-Martínez

et al. 2019

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“…In turn, AUDIT scores equal to or greater than 20 would require referral to a specialist for a broader diagnostic evaluation of alcohol dependence, though we found no such cases in our study sample. There is some evidence that hazardous drinking in medical school is predictive of later hazardous drinking, thus underscoring the importance of interventions to minimize alcohol intake [29]. Alcohol consumption has traditionally been related to the male gender [26], but no gender differences were found in our sample related to alcohol exposure.…”

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Alcohol and Cannabis Intake in Nursing Students

Tejedor-Cabrera

Cauli

2019

Medicina

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Background and objectives: 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. Materials and Methods: 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. Results: 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 “risky alcohol use”, 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 (p < 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 “stop drinking once you have started” or the inability to “remember what happened while consuming” was significantly associated with an increased frequency of alcohol consumption (OR 20.93, p < 0.0001 and OR 13.68, p < 0.05, respectively). Conclusions: Our findings are consistent with emerging social concerns about drug misuse in the university population, including nursing students as future healthcare professionals.

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“…Based on other previous findings (33) and the literature (34–37), we also expected student age, parental education, and living situation to be associated with parental monitoring and family relations. This is the first study to examine Mexican youths’ perceptions of parental monitoring and family relations and their associations with membership in drinking subgroups experiencing alcohol-related consequences.…”

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Parental monitoring and family relations: Associations with drinking patterns among male and female Mexican students

Strunin

Díaz-Martínez²,

Díaz-Martínez

et al. 2015

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Introduction Parental monitoring and family relations are recognized as protective factors for youth alcohol use. The purpose of this study was to investigate perceived parental monitoring and family relations among subgroups of Mexican youths with different patterns of drinking behaviors and consequences. Methods A Latent Profile Analysis (LPA) identified profiles of drinking behavior in a cross-sectional survey of entering first year university students. Multinomial regression examined associations between parental monitoring, family relations and drinking profiles among 22,224 students. Results Both lower perceived parental monitoring and weaker perceived family relations were associated with heavier drinking profiles among males and females, but more strongly associated with female than male heavier drinking profiles. Being older, having parents with lower education, and not living with parents were also associated with lower parental monitoring and weaker family relations. There was a general trend of lower parental monitoring and weaker family relations as the profiles increased from Non/Infrequent-No Consequences to Excessive-Many Consequences drinkers. Lower perceived parental monitoring and weaker perceived family relations were more strongly associated with drinking profiles among females than among males. Both the parental monitoring and family relations scales had similar associations with drinking profiles. Conclusions Findings suggest drinking norms and values may contribute to any protective influences of parental monitoring and family relations on Mexican youths’ drinking. Research about changes in drinking norms, contextual factors, and youth-parent trust would inform the utility of parental monitoring or family relations as protective strategies against alcohol misuse among Mexican and Mexican American youths and also youths from other backgrounds.

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Changes in Alcohol Use Among First Year University Students in Mexico

Cited by 12 publications

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Alcohol and Drug Use in European University Health Science Students: Relationship with Self-Care Ability

Alcohol and Drug Use in European University Health Science Students: Relationship with Self-Care Ability

Alcohol and Cannabis Intake in Nursing Students

Parental monitoring and family relations: Associations with drinking patterns among male and female Mexican students

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