[Public university students' psychosocial factors associated with legal and illegal substance consumption].
OBJECTIVE
Determining the prevalence and psychosocial factors associated with public university students' legal and illegal substance consumption.


METHODS
This was across-sectional study of 1,359 randomly selected students. The harvesting instrument included the CAGE questionnaire and VESPA,WHO, Rosenberg, Francis and APGAR scales. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) was used for univariate and bivariate analysis using disparity ratios (95 % confidence intervals and 5 % error) whilst logistic regression was used for multivariate analysis.


RESULTS
An association was found between abusive alcohol consumption and smoking cigarettes (OR=4.6), marijuana (OR=4.6) and using cocaine (OR=2.2); having a dysfunctional family was associated with smoking cigarettes (OR=1.2), using cocaine (OR=1.95) and abusive alcohol consumption (OR=1.94).


CONCLUSIONS
Abusive alcohol consumption and having a dysfunctional family were influential factors regarding psychoactive substance consumption in public university students.
Facultad de Enfermería, Universidad de Cartagena, Cartagena, Colombia. zcogollom@unicartagena.edu.co
Zuleima
Z
Cogollo-Milanés
Katherine M
KM
Arrieta-Vergara
Sandra
S
Blanco-Bayuelo
Lina
L
Ramos-Martínez
Karen
K
Zapata
Yuranis
Y
Rodríguez-Berrio
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D019970:Cocaine-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D003105:Colombia / Q000453:epidemiology; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005195:Family Relations; D005260:Female; D006213:Hallucinogens; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008385:Marijuana Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D011584:Psychology; D012494:Sampling Studies; D012649:Self Concept; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014495:Universities; D055815:Young Adult
D006213:Hallucinogens