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Updated: Jan 19, 2026
Attitudes: Explicit and Implicit Attitudes
Perceptions of and attitudes to alcohol use among Pakistani medical students
Nazish Imran1, Imran Ijaz Haider2, Atif Sohail3
1Assistant Professor, Child and Family Psychiatry Department, King Edward Medical University, Lahore, Pakistan, email nazishimran@hotmail.com.
Abstract:
Studies worldwide have reported alarming rates of alcohol misuse among medical students (Webb et al, 1996; Kuo et al, 2002; Akvadar et al, 2004). These reports are surprising as well as of extreme concern, as medical professionals are supposedly more educated on the harmful effects of excessive alcohol consumption. The majority of studies exploring the knowledge and attitudes of medical students regarding alcohol have been from the USA and the UK, with only few from lower-income countries and the Islamic world (Kumar & Basu, 2000; Akvadar et al, 2004).
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