Psychoactive substance use among medical and paramedical undergraduate students of Lucknow.

IF 1.4 Q3 EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES
Journal of Education and Health Promotion Pub Date : 2025-02-28 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI:10.4103/jehp.jehp_673_24
Hariom Singh, Shivendra K Singh, Manish K Manar, Abhishek Gupta, Sujita K Kar, Prashant K Bajpai, Prabhakar Mishra, Mili Sengar
{"title":"Psychoactive substance use among medical and paramedical undergraduate students of Lucknow.","authors":"Hariom Singh, Shivendra K Singh, Manish K Manar, Abhishek Gupta, Sujita K Kar, Prashant K Bajpai, Prabhakar Mishra, Mili Sengar","doi":"10.4103/jehp.jehp_673_24","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Psychoactive drugs are substances that, when taken in or administered into one's system, affect mental processes like perception, consciousness, cognition, mood, and emotions. The use of psychoactive substances often starts at a young age. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of psychoactive substance use among medical and paramedical undergraduate students of Lucknow.</p><p><strong>Material and methods: </strong>A cross-sectional study was conducted among 492 MBBS, BDS, and BSc Nursing students of Lucknow. A predesigned pretested semistructured self-administered questionnaire was used for data collection and analysis by using the SPSS 26.0 version.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The overall lifetime prevalence of \"Ever use of the psychoactive substance\" was 46.1%, whereas the overall current psychoactive substance use (in the past 3 months) was 35.2%. The prevalence of lifetime alcohol use was the highest at 36.6%, followed by tobacco (22.4%) and cannabis (17.9%). The prevalence was seen to be higher in males than in females and the highest in fourth-year academic students compared to other years.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The present study indicates that male students consume more psychoactive substances than female students. Effective interventions and strategies must be planned and implemented to reduce substance use among medical and paramedical students and overcome the issue of substance use by promoting a healthy lifestyle and coping skills.</p>","PeriodicalId":15581,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Education and Health Promotion","volume":"14 ","pages":"88"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4000,"publicationDate":"2025-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11940087/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Education and Health Promotion","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_673_24","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2025/1/1 0:00:00","PubModel":"eCollection","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0

Abstract

Background: Psychoactive drugs are substances that, when taken in or administered into one's system, affect mental processes like perception, consciousness, cognition, mood, and emotions. The use of psychoactive substances often starts at a young age. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of psychoactive substance use among medical and paramedical undergraduate students of Lucknow.

Material and methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 492 MBBS, BDS, and BSc Nursing students of Lucknow. A predesigned pretested semistructured self-administered questionnaire was used for data collection and analysis by using the SPSS 26.0 version.

Results: The overall lifetime prevalence of "Ever use of the psychoactive substance" was 46.1%, whereas the overall current psychoactive substance use (in the past 3 months) was 35.2%. The prevalence of lifetime alcohol use was the highest at 36.6%, followed by tobacco (22.4%) and cannabis (17.9%). The prevalence was seen to be higher in males than in females and the highest in fourth-year academic students compared to other years.

Conclusion: The present study indicates that male students consume more psychoactive substances than female students. Effective interventions and strategies must be planned and implemented to reduce substance use among medical and paramedical students and overcome the issue of substance use by promoting a healthy lifestyle and coping skills.

求助全文
约1分钟内获得全文 求助全文
来源期刊
CiteScore
2.60
自引率
21.40%
发文量
218
审稿时长
34 weeks
×
引用
GB/T 7714-2015
复制
MLA
复制
APA
复制
导出至
BibTeX EndNote RefMan NoteFirst NoteExpress
×
提示
您的信息不完整,为了账户安全,请先补充。
现在去补充
×
提示
您因"违规操作"
具体请查看互助需知
我知道了
×
提示
确定
请完成安全验证×
copy
已复制链接
快去分享给好友吧!
我知道了
右上角分享
点击右上角分享
0
联系我们:info@booksci.cn Book学术提供免费学术资源搜索服务,方便国内外学者检索中英文文献。致力于提供最便捷和优质的服务体验。 Copyright © 2023 布克学术 All rights reserved.
京ICP备2023020795号-1
ghs 京公网安备 11010802042870号
Book学术文献互助
Book学术文献互助群
群 号:481959085
Book学术官方微信