Influência das características socioeconômicas no consumo de bebida alcoólica entre universitários

• Autor(a) principal: Melo, Emilly Caroline de Moura
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Monografias da UFMT
• Texto Completo: http://bdm.ufmt.br/handle/1/677
• topic: CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::NUTRICAO; Consumo de bebidas alcoólicas; Estudantes; Fatores socioeconômicos; Fatores de risco; Consumption of alcoholic beverages; Students; Socioeconomic factors; Risk factors

Admission to university can trigger changes in students' lifestyles, including increased alcohol consumption. Objective: To analyze the influence of socioeconomic characteristics on alcohol consumption among university students. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out with students from a Public University of Cuiabá-MT, aged between 16 and 25 years. For data collection, a questionnaire was applied containing socioeconomic and lifestyle. The observed frequency distributions (%) were calculated and the chisquare test was used, considering a significance level of 5%, to evaluate the association between socioeconomic characteristics and alcohol consumption. The project was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Julius Muller University Hospital of the Federal University of Mato Grosso, under the no 1,006, 048, date March 31, 2015. Results: Data from 1038 students were analyzed, of which 50.96% were male, 78.8% were aged between 16 and 19 years, 40.2% declared themselves as white skin color, 69.5% lived with their parents or relatives and 48.5% belonged to economy class B.The frequency of alcohol consumption in the last week was 38.34%, being higher among individuals who belonged to economy class A (52.60%, p <0.01) and among those who lived in a republic or others (47,13%; p= 0.002). Conclusion: It was observed statistical significance of the variables, economic class and with whom resides, with alcohol consumption among university students.