Internal migration in college students. Is it a risk for the drugs consumption?
Drug use and abuse is a global phenomenon that has serious social, economic and health-related implications. The impact it has on college students is a major concern, as it generates low academic performance and high dropout rates. The objective of this paper was to explore whether internal migratio...
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Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas
2016
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| Online Access: | https://revistaciencia.uat.edu.mx/index.php/CienciaUAT/article/view/648 |
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| Summary: | Drug use and abuse is a global phenomenon that has serious social, economic and health-related implications. The impact it has on college students is a major concern, as it generates low academic performance and high dropout rates. The objective of this paper was to explore whether internal migration for access to higher education represents a risk factor for drug consumption. This study has been designed on the bases of a quantitative, cross-sectional, observational and analytic-inductive research methodology; applied an instrument on-line to a convenience sample that included both university and technical students from the Universidad Veracruzana in the five campuses comprising it: Poza Rica-Tuxpan, Xalapa, Córdoba-Orizaba, Veracruz-Boca del Río and Coatzacoalcos-Minatitlán, located from north to south in the State of Veracruz in Mexico. A total of 2 621 students from the region of Xalapa participated in the study (91.6 % did not migrate and 8.4 % dided). The statistical analysis showed that the most frequently used drugs by the study population were alcohol, tobacco and marijuana. But the students that were on migratory situation presented agreater risk for the consumption of tobacco, alcohol, hallucinogens, and crack than their non-migrant counterparts. The results obtained suggest that migration in higher education increases the risk of drugs consumption. Archive XML (SciELO) |
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