The paper presents a non-experimental and descriptive research, aimed to identify the use of legal and illegal psychoactivedrugs and the psychosocial associated risk and protective factors in a sample of 763 college students from Cali,Colombia. A questionnaire to evaluate the use of 4 illegal drugs...
Drug use in college students: a 13-year trend. To analyze drug use trends among college students in 1996, 2001 and 2009.A cross-sectional epidemiological study with a multistage stratified cluster sampl... - 《Revista De Saúde Pública》 被引量: 26发表: 2012年 Monitoring the Future national...
College StudentsDrug AbuseGrade Point AverageHigher EducationMotivationNarcoticsStudent MotivationONE of the most compelling arguments against illegal drug use, especially by the young, is that it instills in the user an "amotivational syndrome" of apathy, lethargy and loss of motivation in the ...
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As a result, some of the most fundamental questions about use of illegal drugs among students remain unanswered. The current research aims to answer some of these questions by examining drug use behavior among a national sample of full-time college and university students. Methods: The data used...
Objective: To assess whether college students who use psychotropic drugs are (1) aware of potential side effects, (2) appropriately monitored by prescribing physicians, and (3) taking medications as prescribed. Participants: Fifty-five college students, currently taking psychotropic medications, were re...
Approximately 36% of all college students report drug use in the past year.We review the literature on prevention and intervention of college student drug use.Brief counselor-delivered motivational interventions may be effective.The combination of individual and parent-based approaches may also be effec...
This study records drug use and lifestyle among students at a Midwestern community college. The study provides the first set of data on the levels of drug use at this college and makes some comparisons to drug use levels found in other studies. Alcohol was found to have the highest percentag...
E. (1968), DRUG USE ON HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE CAMPUSES. Journal of School Health, 38: 638–646. doi: 10.1111/j.1746-1561.1968.tb04260.x Author Information Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Associate Dean, School of Pharmacy and Pharmacal Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, ...
Participants were interviewed in person during their first year (T1) and second year (T2) of college about past-year drug and alcohol use, religiosity, and vaginal intercourse. Logistic regression models examined three outcomes: sexual debut (having vaginal intercourse for the first time between T1...