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Khat Chewing Practice and Associated Factors among Medical Students in Gondar Town, Ethiopia, 2019

BACKGROUND: Globally, khat chewing practice becoming an alarming and common among the youth generation, especially in higher educational institutions. It may also lead to frequent misbehavior, poor academic performance, and memory impairment among students. This study aimed to determine the prevalen...

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Autores principales: Adane, Tsegaye, Worku, Walelegn, Azanaw, Jember, Yohannes, Lamrot
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7930654/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33716504
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1178221821999079
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author Adane, Tsegaye
Worku, Walelegn
Azanaw, Jember
Yohannes, Lamrot
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Worku, Walelegn
Azanaw, Jember
Yohannes, Lamrot
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description BACKGROUND: Globally, khat chewing practice becoming an alarming and common among the youth generation, especially in higher educational institutions. It may also lead to frequent misbehavior, poor academic performance, and memory impairment among students. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of khat chewing practice and associated factors among medical students in Gondar town, Ethiopia, 2019. METHOD: A cross-sectional study was employed on 422 medical students. Data were collected using a self-administered questionnaire and analyzed using SPSS 20 software. Stratified followed by random sampling was employed to select the samples. A multivariable logistic regression model was fitted to identify the predictors. P ⩽ .05 was used to select statistically significant factors. RESULT: The current prevalence of khat chewing practice among medical students was 21.5%. The odds of khat chewing practice was higher among males (AOR = 3.353; 95%CI [1.460-7.701]), Muslims (AOR = 6.390; 95%CI [1.903-21.460]), fifth and 6 year students (AOR = 3.391; 95%CI [1.354-8.488]), smokers (AOR = 5.081; 95%CI [1.898-13.601]), alcohol users (AOR = 4.872; 95%CI [2.094-11.332]), students who had khat chewer close friends (AOR = 30.645; 95%CI [12.261-76.589]). CONCLUSION: Since a significant proportion of students were found to be khat chewers, continuous awareness creation on the impact of khat chewing and counseling services are recommended.
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spelling pubmed-79306542021-03-12 Khat Chewing Practice and Associated Factors among Medical Students in Gondar Town, Ethiopia, 2019 Adane, Tsegaye Worku, Walelegn Azanaw, Jember Yohannes, Lamrot Subst Abuse Substance Use and Drinking among Students BACKGROUND: Globally, khat chewing practice becoming an alarming and common among the youth generation, especially in higher educational institutions. It may also lead to frequent misbehavior, poor academic performance, and memory impairment among students. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of khat chewing practice and associated factors among medical students in Gondar town, Ethiopia, 2019. METHOD: A cross-sectional study was employed on 422 medical students. Data were collected using a self-administered questionnaire and analyzed using SPSS 20 software. Stratified followed by random sampling was employed to select the samples. A multivariable logistic regression model was fitted to identify the predictors. P ⩽ .05 was used to select statistically significant factors. RESULT: The current prevalence of khat chewing practice among medical students was 21.5%. The odds of khat chewing practice was higher among males (AOR = 3.353; 95%CI [1.460-7.701]), Muslims (AOR = 6.390; 95%CI [1.903-21.460]), fifth and 6 year students (AOR = 3.391; 95%CI [1.354-8.488]), smokers (AOR = 5.081; 95%CI [1.898-13.601]), alcohol users (AOR = 4.872; 95%CI [2.094-11.332]), students who had khat chewer close friends (AOR = 30.645; 95%CI [12.261-76.589]). CONCLUSION: Since a significant proportion of students were found to be khat chewers, continuous awareness creation on the impact of khat chewing and counseling services are recommended. SAGE Publications 2021-03-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7930654/ /pubmed/33716504 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1178221821999079 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Azanaw, Jember
Yohannes, Lamrot
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title Khat Chewing Practice and Associated Factors among Medical Students in Gondar Town, Ethiopia, 2019
title_full Khat Chewing Practice and Associated Factors among Medical Students in Gondar Town, Ethiopia, 2019
title_fullStr Khat Chewing Practice and Associated Factors among Medical Students in Gondar Town, Ethiopia, 2019
title_full_unstemmed Khat Chewing Practice and Associated Factors among Medical Students in Gondar Town, Ethiopia, 2019
title_short Khat Chewing Practice and Associated Factors among Medical Students in Gondar Town, Ethiopia, 2019
title_sort khat chewing practice and associated factors among medical students in gondar town, ethiopia, 2019
topic Substance Use and Drinking among Students
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7930654/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33716504
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1178221821999079
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