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Pregaming on Alcohol Products among Male College Students in Puducherry-Mixed-Methods Study
BACKGROUND: There are some risky practices such as preloading or pregaming which exist among college students. When students pregame, compared with drinking episodes when they do not, they consume a greater number of drinks and have higher blood alcohol concentrations. OBJECTIVES: (1) To explore the...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8575231/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34759475 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijcm.IJCM_421_20 |
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author | Rajaseharan, Divya Dongre, Amol R. |
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description | BACKGROUND: There are some risky practices such as preloading or pregaming which exist among college students. When students pregame, compared with drinking episodes when they do not, they consume a greater number of drinks and have higher blood alcohol concentrations. OBJECTIVES: (1) To explore the perceptions about pregaming among male college students in Puducherry. (2) To study the prevalence of pregaming among current alcohol users. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A sequential exploratory mixed-method study (Qualitative-Focus Group Discussion [FGD] to explore pregaming followed by Quantitative-self-administered questionnaire [survey]) was conducted among 450 male engineering college students by simple random sampling. RESULTS: The prevalence of pregaming among current alcohol users was 66.7%. Among all occasions, the students were involved in pregaming mostly on birthdays 92.5% and marriages 92.5% followed by college cultural events 90%. All of the students 100% wanted to pregame for anticipated alcohol cost problems, 100% pregamed for fun and 87.5% easy conversations with the opposite sex and majority 66.6% had the intention to quit pregaming among current users. CONCLUSION: The prevalence of pregaming is high among current users however, the majority of them had the intention to quit this behavior. Counselors and health care professionals working in alcohol de-addiction centers should specifically question pregaming and its associated symptoms. Tailor-made interventions should be promoted to target the concept of pregaming-related consequences of alcohol addiction. |
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spelling | pubmed-85752312021-11-09 Pregaming on Alcohol Products among Male College Students in Puducherry-Mixed-Methods Study Rajaseharan, Divya Dongre, Amol R. Indian J Community Med Original Article BACKGROUND: There are some risky practices such as preloading or pregaming which exist among college students. When students pregame, compared with drinking episodes when they do not, they consume a greater number of drinks and have higher blood alcohol concentrations. OBJECTIVES: (1) To explore the perceptions about pregaming among male college students in Puducherry. (2) To study the prevalence of pregaming among current alcohol users. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A sequential exploratory mixed-method study (Qualitative-Focus Group Discussion [FGD] to explore pregaming followed by Quantitative-self-administered questionnaire [survey]) was conducted among 450 male engineering college students by simple random sampling. RESULTS: The prevalence of pregaming among current alcohol users was 66.7%. Among all occasions, the students were involved in pregaming mostly on birthdays 92.5% and marriages 92.5% followed by college cultural events 90%. All of the students 100% wanted to pregame for anticipated alcohol cost problems, 100% pregamed for fun and 87.5% easy conversations with the opposite sex and majority 66.6% had the intention to quit pregaming among current users. CONCLUSION: The prevalence of pregaming is high among current users however, the majority of them had the intention to quit this behavior. Counselors and health care professionals working in alcohol de-addiction centers should specifically question pregaming and its associated symptoms. Tailor-made interventions should be promoted to target the concept of pregaming-related consequences of alcohol addiction. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021 2021-10-13 /pmc/articles/PMC8575231/ /pubmed/34759475 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijcm.IJCM_421_20 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Indian Journal of Community Medicine https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Rajaseharan, Divya Dongre, Amol R. Pregaming on Alcohol Products among Male College Students in Puducherry-Mixed-Methods Study |
title | Pregaming on Alcohol Products among Male College Students in Puducherry-Mixed-Methods Study |
title_full | Pregaming on Alcohol Products among Male College Students in Puducherry-Mixed-Methods Study |
title_fullStr | Pregaming on Alcohol Products among Male College Students in Puducherry-Mixed-Methods Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Pregaming on Alcohol Products among Male College Students in Puducherry-Mixed-Methods Study |
title_short | Pregaming on Alcohol Products among Male College Students in Puducherry-Mixed-Methods Study |
title_sort | pregaming on alcohol products among male college students in puducherry-mixed-methods study |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8575231/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34759475 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijcm.IJCM_421_20 |
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