Does religion affect alcohol and tobacco use among students at North-West University, South Africa?

Amoateng, Acheampong Yaw; Setlalentoa, Boitumelo Marilyn Patience; Udomboso, Christopher Godwin

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“…The second factor significantly associated with alcohol use is not surprisingly, being a non‐Muslim since alcohol is prohibited in Islam. Similar findings have been reported in Muslim‐dominated populations, 20 given the prohibition and abstention of alcohol drinking by the religion. A study involving 16 596 respondents among adults in Canada, also established a significant association between religious groups (Baptist, Christian, Hindu, Jehovah's Witness, Jewish, Islam, non‐denominational, Pentecostal, Sikh and other religion) and a reduction in alcohol drinking habit as compared to having no religion or atheist group, 21 which reflect the fact that religious traditions of prohibition and abstention from alcohol do hold sway among adults.…”

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Prevalence and risk factors associated with alcohol consumption among indigenous people in Sabah Borneo Island

Rashid

Daud

Guad

et al. 2021

Australian J Rural Health

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Objectives In this study, we aimed to determine the prevalence and risk factors of alcohol use among a cohort of population in Sabah. Design This is a prospective, cohort study involving rural community residents. Setting Rural community resident at Bingkor, Keningau, Sabah. Participants 363 individuals aged 13 years old and above. Intervention Community‐based participatory research to determine the prevalence and risk factors associated with alcohol use. Main outcome measures Measurement of alcohol use using Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) and assessment of psychiatric morbidity using Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI) questionnaires. Results Most alcohol drinkers aged between 36‐45 years old, followed by 26‐35 years old and 46‐55 years old. Interestingly, there are almost similar female to male ratio. Most were Kadazan‐Dusun ethnic, non‐Muslims, and married. Although only less than a third of the participants received tertiary education, the majority were working. Based on the findings, being a male, non‐Muslim and having an obsessive‐compulsive disorder (OCD) (current) posed a significantly higher risk of alcohol consumption. Conclusion A worryingly high prevalence of hazardous alcohol consumption among the locals is reported. There is a need for population‐wide intervention towards preventive measures based on the identified risk factors for hazardous alcohol use.

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Prevalence and risk factors associated with alcohol consumption among indigenous people in Sabah Borneo Island

Rashid

Daud

Guad

et al. 2021

Australian J Rural Health

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“…In 2011, the World Health Organization (WHO) asserts that South Africans consume about 5 million litres of alcohol yearly. With this figure, the country is rated among countries, which suffer alcohol abuse (Amoateng, Setlalentoa & Udomboso 2017). Furthermore, it has been observed that while new brands of alcoholic beverages and industries are introduced into the continent, new marketing strategies are developed to increase the sales of the products in each country, with no laid down policies by lawmakers to regulate the consumption, sale and production of alcohol.…”

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Alcohol abuse in African traditional religion: Education and enlightenment as panacea for integration and development

Ekeke

John

2023

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies

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Alcoholism is endemic in Nigeria’s traditional religion and society. This abuse is especially common at New Yam festivals, Ekpe, Ekpo and Nmanwu masquerades festivals, burial rituals, birth, marriage and naming ceremonies. Some claim that this is driven by specific beliefs and activities in African culture, such as beliefs in ancestors, libation, hospitality and entertaining guests and strangers and the desire to maintain the cultural traditions of the ancestors. Alcohol abuse has generated major health and social issues for abusers, their families and society, plunging families, towns and tribes into crises and conflicts that bring economic and political retrogression. This research studied how the African traditional religion encourages alcohol misuse and how to decrease it for national development. This study was on Nigeria’s South-South region. The study uses qualitative and ethnographic research methodologies, including key informants, in-depth and focus group interviews and the reward deficiency syndrome as a theoretical framework. Although African Traditional Religion (ATR) supports alcohol usage, greed, a lack of self-control, peer pressure, indiscipline and lack of moral upbringing led to alcohol misuse, which harms the person, family, community and country as a whole. Education and enlightenment are a remedy to free alcoholics and utilise them for national integration and development.Contribution: Some say Africans drink a lot because their religious heritage promotes drinking, leading to abuse. However, peer pressure, selfishness, a lack of self-control, bad parenting and not religion push persons with reward deficiency syndrome into alcoholism, according to this research.

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“…In South Africa, the empirical evidence on the inverse association between measures of religion and various risk behaviours by the youth has been mounting over the years (e.g. Amoateng, Barber & Erickson 2006;Amoateng, Setlalentoa and Udomboso 2017;Chauke, Van der Heever & Hoque 2015;Flisher et al 1996;Morojele et al 2006;Seggie 2012). Existing evidence is quite emphatic that religious participation may be associated with greater political and civic involvement, especially during young adulthood (Serow & Dreyden 1990;Smith 1999;Youniss, McLellan & Yates 1999).…”

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Does religion affect political engagement of the youth at the tertiary level of education? The case of undergraduate students at a South African university

Amoateng¹

2020

Theologia Viatorum

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Does religion affect alcohol and tobacco use among students at North-West University, South Africa?

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Prevalence and risk factors associated with alcohol consumption among indigenous people in Sabah Borneo Island

Prevalence and risk factors associated with alcohol consumption among indigenous people in Sabah Borneo Island

Alcohol abuse in African traditional religion: Education and enlightenment as panacea for integration and development

Does religion affect political engagement of the youth at the tertiary level of education? The case of undergraduate students at a South African university

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