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Prevalence and predictors of recreational drug use among medical and nursing students in Cameroon: a cross sectional analysis

OBJECTIVE: Medical and nursing students in Cameroon are likely to have mental health problems given the stressful nature of their studies. Paucity of mental health institutions in the country implies they hardly get access to professional help when needed and are obliged to develop coping strategies...

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Autores principales: Mbanga, Clarence M., Efie, Derrick T., Aroke, Desmond, Njim, Tsi
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6064166/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30055652
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3631-z
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author Mbanga, Clarence M.
Efie, Derrick T.
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description OBJECTIVE: Medical and nursing students in Cameroon are likely to have mental health problems given the stressful nature of their studies. Paucity of mental health institutions in the country implies they hardly get access to professional help when needed and are obliged to develop coping strategies such as recreational drug use. This study aims to determine the prevalence and predictors of recreational drug use among a group of Cameroonian medical and nursing students. RESULTS: Cross-sectional analysis of 852 medical and nursing students (mean age 21.78 ± 3.14, 31.49% males) recruited by convenience sampling from three state-owned medical schools; and from two state-owned and two private nursing schools in Cameroon over a four-month period (January–April 2018). Information was collected via a printed self-administered and structured questionnaire from consenting students. Multivariable logistic regression analysis was used to identify independent predictors of recreational drug use. The overall prevalence of recreational drug use was 1.64% with tramadol and marijuana noted as the drugs used by these students. Independent predictors of recreational drug use were: presence of a chronic illness (OR 5.26; 95% CI 1.32, 20.97; p = 0.019), alcohol consumption (OR 5.08; 95% CI 1.54, 16.73; p = 0.008) and Total Oldenburg Burnout Inventory score (OR 1.11; 95% CI 1.02, 1.21; p = 0.021). The use of recreational drugs by medical and nursing students in Cameroon remains worrisome despite its very low prevalence, as it may negatively impact their performance and health. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s13104-018-3631-z) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-60641662018-08-01 Prevalence and predictors of recreational drug use among medical and nursing students in Cameroon: a cross sectional analysis Mbanga, Clarence M. Efie, Derrick T. Aroke, Desmond Njim, Tsi BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVE: Medical and nursing students in Cameroon are likely to have mental health problems given the stressful nature of their studies. Paucity of mental health institutions in the country implies they hardly get access to professional help when needed and are obliged to develop coping strategies such as recreational drug use. This study aims to determine the prevalence and predictors of recreational drug use among a group of Cameroonian medical and nursing students. RESULTS: Cross-sectional analysis of 852 medical and nursing students (mean age 21.78 ± 3.14, 31.49% males) recruited by convenience sampling from three state-owned medical schools; and from two state-owned and two private nursing schools in Cameroon over a four-month period (January–April 2018). Information was collected via a printed self-administered and structured questionnaire from consenting students. Multivariable logistic regression analysis was used to identify independent predictors of recreational drug use. The overall prevalence of recreational drug use was 1.64% with tramadol and marijuana noted as the drugs used by these students. Independent predictors of recreational drug use were: presence of a chronic illness (OR 5.26; 95% CI 1.32, 20.97; p = 0.019), alcohol consumption (OR 5.08; 95% CI 1.54, 16.73; p = 0.008) and Total Oldenburg Burnout Inventory score (OR 1.11; 95% CI 1.02, 1.21; p = 0.021). The use of recreational drugs by medical and nursing students in Cameroon remains worrisome despite its very low prevalence, as it may negatively impact their performance and health. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s13104-018-3631-z) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2018-07-28 /pmc/articles/PMC6064166/ /pubmed/30055652 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3631-z Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Mbanga, Clarence M.
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Aroke, Desmond
Njim, Tsi
Prevalence and predictors of recreational drug use among medical and nursing students in Cameroon: a cross sectional analysis
title Prevalence and predictors of recreational drug use among medical and nursing students in Cameroon: a cross sectional analysis
title_full Prevalence and predictors of recreational drug use among medical and nursing students in Cameroon: a cross sectional analysis
title_fullStr Prevalence and predictors of recreational drug use among medical and nursing students in Cameroon: a cross sectional analysis
title_full_unstemmed Prevalence and predictors of recreational drug use among medical and nursing students in Cameroon: a cross sectional analysis
title_short Prevalence and predictors of recreational drug use among medical and nursing students in Cameroon: a cross sectional analysis
title_sort prevalence and predictors of recreational drug use among medical and nursing students in cameroon: a cross sectional analysis
topic Research Note
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6064166/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30055652
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3631-z
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