Substance and alcohol use, internet addiction and mental stress among university students. A study in Algeria, France and Hungary J Ladner 1,2, A Lukacs.

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Substance and alcohol use, internet addiction and mental stress among university students. A study in Algeria, France and Hungary J Ladner 1,2, A Lukacs 3, N Boussouf 4, MP Tavolacci 1,2, B Varga 5, S Grigioni 1,2, P Dchelotte 1,2 1 Rouen University Hospital, Rouen (France) 2 INSERM Unit 1073, ADEN, Rouen University Hospital, Rouen 3 Faculty of Health Care, Miskolc (Hungary) 4 Batna University Hospital, Batna (Algeria) 5 Faculty of Economics, Miskolc [email protected] Slide 2 Alcohol, tobacco and cannabis consumption are well recognized as important public health topics in university students Prevalence of Internet addiction, mental stress and eating and disorders are regularly growing Background Slide 3 Objectives To study the prevalence and identify risk comportments of alcohol, tobacco and cannabis use, Internet addiction and eating disorders risks, perceived mental stress in students in higher education in 3 countries (Algeria, France and Hungary) Slide 4 Methods (1) Batna, Algeria Miskolc, HungaryRouen, France Slide 5 Anonymous auto-questionnaires Papers questionnaires in Batna and Miskolc Paper and online questionnaires in Rouen (www.tasanteenunclic.org) Methods (2) Questionnaire Slide 6 www.tasanteenunclic.org Slide 7 Age, gender, to get a job in parallel, study grant holder) Alcohol consumption (binge drinking) Smoking habits Cannabis experimentation Psychotropic drugs consumption (anxiolytics, antidepressant drugs) SCOFF questionnaire: screening test of eating disorders risk Methods (3) Data collection Slide 8 Assess global perception of stress 10 questions, 5-Lickert scale PPS score ranges from 0 to 40 Methods (3) The Perceived Stress Scale (PPS) of Cohen Slide 9 9 questions, scored 0 or 1 Measure the risk to become Net addicted Three levels of Internet addiction From 0 to 3: very little tendancy to become Net addicted (low risk) From 4 to 6: a risk to become Net addicted (risk) From 7 to 9: a high risk to become Net addicted (high risk) Methods (4) The Internet Stress Scale (Orman test) Slide 10 Results (1) A total of 2,102 students included SD: standard deviation Slide 11 Results (2) Smoking prevalence and cannabis experimentation SD: standard deviation; R=range Slide 12 Results (3) Alcohol consumption in men and women (%) Batna (n=345) Miskolc (n=275) Rouen (n=1,482) MWpMWpMWp Alcohol consumption >2 x/week 00-27.63.80.02532.332.90.93 Never BG93.61000.4515.739.3