The relationship between the nursing undergraduatestudents' eating attitudes and the risk of alcohol andsubstance abuse

Abstract

Objectives: This study is to determine the relation between eating attitudes and risk of alcohol and substance addic tion and the affecting factors of nursing college students.Methods: The sample of this descriptive and correlational study was conducted with students who take education atNursing in Faculty of Health Sciences (n=477). Analyses of datas, which were collected using Eating Attitudes Test (EAT),Addiction Profile Index Risk Screening (APIRS-alcohol) for Alcohol Scale and Addiction Profile Index (APIRS-drug) forSubstance Scale, were performed with percentile distributions, averages, Mann-Whitney U test, Kruskal Wallis test andSperman Correlation Analysis. Results: The mean age of the students were 20.83±1.59, 88.9% were women, 27.9% 2nd grade in university. EAT meanscores of 15.84±10.87, APIRS-alcohol scale mean scores 0.59±1.54 and APIRS-drug scale mean scores were 0.15±0.92 ofstudents. It was determined 8.0% of students have eating disorder, 9.2% of students have high risk of alcohol use and1.9% of students have high risk of substance use. There was a significant positive relation between students with eatingdisorders and with high risk groups in terms of substance use (r=0.105, p=0.021). In addition, There was a significantpositive relation between students with eating disorders and with high risk groups in terms of alcohol use (r=0.097,p=0.034). Students who have eating disorders and found significant positive relation between have high risk of sub stance use (p