Abstract

PUPPIM, Nathalia Gama; PORTUGAL, Flávia Batista  and  SIQUEIRA, Marluce Mechelli de. Use of licit substances among Speech Therapy undergraduate students of a public university. SMAD, Rev. Eletrônica Saúde Mental Álcool Drog. (Ed. port.) [online]. 2021, vol.17, n.2, pp. 16-25. ISSN 1806-6976.  http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/issn.1806-6976.smad.2021.169569.

OBJECTIVE: analyze the consumption of alcohol and tobacco among Speech Therapy undergraduate students of a public university. METHOD: this is a cross-sectional study, based on the completion of an instrument proposed by the National Secretariat for Drug Policy. The study analyzed a sample of 130 students enrolled in the Speech Therapy course, which corresponds to 79.06% of students enrolled in 2018. RESULTS: alcohol is one of the most commonly used legal substances among university students; alcohol consumption rates in life, in the year, and in the last 30 days were: 79.2%, 56.2% and 45.4%, respectively. Regarding tobacco, 21.5% reported using tobacco at some point in life; 8.5% in the year, and 7.7% in the last 30 days. In the multivariate analysis, the significant predictor variables for alcohol consumption were age (in the month) and religious practice (year and month). For tobacco use, the significant predictor variables were: sex (throughout life), religious practice (throughout life and in the year) and ethnic group (in the year). CONCLUSION: the findings of this study indicate that the consumption of licit substances prevails among university students, highlighting the importance of adopting actions to prevent inadequate use of these substances and promote health among this population.

Keywords : Alcoholic Beverages; Use of tobacco; Students; Speech Therapy; Prevention.

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