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The consumption of alcoholic beverages and the binge drink among Medicine graduating in a Minas Gerais University

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posted on 2018-05-16, 02:41 authored by Thalles Trindade de Abreu, Amanda de Oliveira Maurílio, Caio César Liguori, Daniel Vasconcelos de Pinho Tavares, Delmo Manoel Gomes Terceiro, Lucas G. Malta Cunha, Vinícius Silva Belo, Alexandre Ernesto Silva

ABSTRACT Objectives The study had as its goal to verify the pattern of the alcoholic beverages consumption and the presence of drinking heavily snatchy (BPE) among the Medicine students of a Minas Gerais Midwest university. Methods It is about a transversal, exploratory and descriptive study, performed on 202 graduating students of the Medicine course of a Minas Gerais Midwest university. The data collet was performed on the first term of 2015, a sociodemographic questionnaire and the Audit questionnaire were used. The statistical treatment of the data was performed with the use of the bivariate analysis, through the chi-square test or by the Fisher test, and multivariate logistic regression models. Results It was noticed that the alcohol is used by 76,6% of the students surveyed, being that 53,7% practiced the drinking heavily episodic. The alcoholic beverages consumption had meaningful association with the age, not living with family and being above the 3rd year of graduation. Drinking heavily episodic had meaningful association with the males and not living with family. Conclusions This paperwork has shown that the alcohol consumption among Medicine students is bigger than among the general population and the binge drink practice has high prevalence on that group. Age, not living with the family and more advanced period of the course were associated with higher alcohol consumption. Being male and not living with the family were associated with a higher risk of BPE.

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