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Victórya Suéllen Maciel Abreu1, Davi Oliveira Teles1, Hillary Bastos Vasconcelos Rodrigues1
1Universidade Federal do Ceará. Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil.
Objectives:
to verify sociodemographic, academic and health risk factors for Central Nervous System drug use among nursing students.
Methods:
a cross-sectional study with 199 public undergraduate students from Ceará, using Characterization Instrument, Antonovsky's Sense of Coherence Questionnaire, Beck Depression Inventory and Beck Anxiety Inventory. Fischer's exact test and Pearson's chi-square test were performed, verifying an association between variables. Prevalence ratio was used.
Results:
a total of 34 used such drugs, with predominance of use of anxiolytics, associated with age (p=0.026), dissatisfaction with the relationship between classmates (p=0.003), insomnia (p=0.009), chronic disease (p=0.001), depression (p=0.035), and severe anxiety (p=0.023).
Conclusions:
using Central Nervous System drugs among students was associated with sociodemographic, academic and health factors, evidencing the need for actions promoting undergraduate students' mental health.
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