Pattern of Alcohol Use among Undergraduate Students of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo State, Nigeria

Abstract

Background: Despite the major health Problems that arises from drinking of excessive alcohol; for example, cancer pancreatitis, liver cirrhosis, tuberculosis, pneumonia, diabetes mellitus, malignancies, mental horribleness, and injury, students still indulges in the drinking of alcohol. In other to help in reducing chronic diseases and other adverse health effects associated with excessive alcohol drinking, there is the need to get a latest baseline data on alcohol use. Hence, the need to investigate the pattern of Alcohol use among Undergraduate students of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo State, Nigeria. Methods: The research design used for this study is descriptive survey research, questionnaire was used for data collection, and multistage sampling procedure was used to select respondents. Furthermore, this study was conducted in Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko in Ondo State, Nigeria, and the respondents for this study comprised 500 undergraduate students of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo state, Nigeria. The descriptive statistics of frequency count and percentages score were used to analyse demographic data and the research question, while inferential Statistics of linear regression was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 levels of significance. Findings: Findings revealed that 269 (53.8%) respondents do not take Alcohol at all, but 33 (6.6%) respondents takes Alcohol once a month, 44 (8.8%) respondents takes Alcohol once a week, 31 (6.2%) respondents takes Alcohol once every day, 19 (3.8%) respondents takes Alcohol twice every morning and 104 (20.8%) respondents takes Alcohol only during occasions. It was also discovered that age, gender and family background of students have no significant influence on their pattern of Alcohol use. Conclusions: It was concluded that majority of undergraduate students of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba- Akoko, Ondo state, Nigeria does not drink alcoholic beverages i.e. 53.8% respondents do not drink it at all; while 46.2% of undergraduate students of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo state, Nigeria drink alcoholic beverages. Also, it was concluded that age, gender and family background of students have no significant influence on their pattern of Alcohol use.