title: [Perceived norms among university students about their peers and drug use at a Chilean university].
abstract: This study analyzes the relationship between perceived norms about drug use among peers and actual use among university students. This is a qualitative, multicenter study involving sophomore and junior students of the health courses of a Chilean university. Participants were 286 (75.2%) of the total 380 university students.
  
  
  RESULTS
  more than 50% of the students notice that their peers smoke cigarettes on a daily basis, drink alcohol three times a week, and use marijuana once a week and cocaine at least once a year. The university campus it place of highest drug use; cocaine is used at a friend's house. Among students, 68% have smoked once in their life, 57% smoke on a daily basis; 88% have had alcohol once in their life; 26% used marijuana once in their life, 16% used marijuana over the last 12 months. Students do not know about any university policies for drug use. Some results confirm that drug use is underestimated.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermería, Universidad de Concepción, Chile. jramirez@udev.cl
authors.forename: Julia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ramirez Castillo
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cunningham
authors.forename: Bruna
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Brands
authors.forename: Carol
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Strike
authors.forename: Maria da Gloria Miotto
authors.initials: Mda G
authors.lastname: Wright
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002677:Chile; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010379:Peer Group; D013334:Students; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014495:Universities; D055815:Young Adult