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- Title
Characteristics of alcoholic drinks consumption and consumption pattern among Dental students.
- Authors
Torres-Martínez, Pilar Alejandra; Barrios-Penna, Carolina Alejandra; Vega-Troncoso, Carla Andrea; Díaz-Narváez, Victor Patricio; Sebastián Alejandro, Sebastián Alejandro; Vergara-Castillo, Samanta Abril
- Abstract
Aim: To describe characteristics of alcohol consumption and to identify patterns of consumption among dental students from University San Sebastián, Concepción. Method: This is an exploratory, non-experimental, descriptive and cross sectional study with a sample of 601 students (65 % of students). Two questionnaires were applied during the second semester of 2015. The first: A structured questionnaire designed to collect data on alcohol consumption and its characteristics. The second: the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics. The association of the dependent variable "alcohol" with the independent variables "age", " gender", "geographic location of origin" and "semester" were evaluated by a binomial logistic regression. Then, the data observed in subjects who reported drinking alcohol were evaluated. The significance level used in all cases was α≤0.05. Results: 15 % is a risk consumer, and 18% is a harmful consumer or have a possible dependence. In students who drink, the variable family income is associated with the time of year of consumption and alcohol-related problems. Conclusion: There is a higher prevalence of male consumption and a high consumption of alcoholic beverages in both genders at any time of the year. Consumption of alcoholic beverages is independent of family income.
- Subjects
ALCOHOL drinking; DENTISTRY; ALCOHOL drinking in college
- Publication
Salud Uninorte, 2017, Vol 33, Issue 2, p168
- ISSN
0120-5552
- Publication type
Article