Most cited article - PubMed ID 12690803
Perceptual differences regarding health and environmental problems and their remedies in two states of the former Czechoslovakia
The main objective of the research was to examine the associations between problematic alcohol use, tobacco use and cannabis use among Czech and Slovak university students during the early COVID-19 pandemic. The research sample consisted of 1422 participants from the Czech Republic (CZ) and 1677 from the Slovak Republic (SK). The analyses included university students who drank alcohol in the past year (CZ: 1323 (93%); SK: 1526 (91%)). Regarding the analysed measures, the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) and its subscales, the Glover-Nilsson Smoking Behavioral Questionnaire (GN-SBQ) and the Cannabis Abuse Screening Test (CAST) were selected to identify substance-related behaviour. Age, gender and residence were included in the analyses as socio-demographic variables. Correlation and regression analyses were used to achieve the main objective of the research. The main results revealed that the use of tobacco and cannabis were positively associated with alcohol use disorders among Czech and Slovak university students. Additionally, males were more likely to report alcohol use disorders. In the Czech Republic, it was found that students living in dormitories were characterized by a lower AUDIT score. The opposite situation was found in the Slovak Republic. Czech and Slovak policy-makers are encouraged to develop alcohol use prevention programs for university students in line with these findings.
- Keywords
- COVID-19 pandemic, alcohol dependence, cannabis, marijuana, smoking, socio-demographic, substance use, tobacco, young adults,
- MeSH
- Alcoholism * MeSH
- Cannabis * MeSH
- COVID-19 * MeSH
- Demography MeSH
- Humans MeSH
- Pandemics MeSH
- Alcohol Drinking MeSH
- Substance-Related Disorders * epidemiology MeSH
- Cross-Sectional Studies MeSH
- SARS-CoV-2 MeSH
- Students MeSH
- Universities MeSH
- Tobacco Use MeSH
- Check Tag
- Humans MeSH
- Publication type
- Journal Article MeSH
- Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't MeSH
- Geographicals
- Czech Republic epidemiology MeSH
- Slovakia epidemiology MeSH
