title: Undergraduate students' motivations for the consumption of legal drugs.
abstract: This qualitative research aimed at identifying conceptions held by undergraduate students regarding the term motivation, and motives leading them to the consumption of legal drugs. Data were collected through a questionnaire with four open questions, applied to 15 students of a public university in the central region of Mexico. In order to perform the data analysis, answers were classified in two categories: a) Undergraduate students' conceptions regarding the term motivation and b) Undergraduate students' conceptions regarding the motives for consumption. Such analysis indicated that students identify two types of motivations: external and internal. The external motivation includes family, mass media and friends; whereas internal motivation includes personal characteristics, need of belonging, curiosity, pleasure and idleness.
authors: School of Nursing, University Autonoma of Querétaro, Mexico. covetojo@yahoo.com
authors: Verónica Margarita
authors: VM
authors: Hernández Rodríguez
authors: Zeyne Alves Pires
authors: ZA
authors: Scherer
mesh_terms: D004358:Drug Therapy; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*