Substance Abuse Among College Students: Investigation the Role of Hopelessness



Jalilian F¹ ; Karami Matin B² ; Ahmadpanah M³ ; Motlagh F⁴ ; Mahboubi M⁵ ; Eslami AA⁶
Source: Life Science Journal Published:2014

Abstract

Some of study showed hopelessness is related with risky behaviors. The main aim of this study was determination the relationship between hopelessness and cigarette smoking, drug abuse, psychotropic drug use, and alcohol drinking among sample of Iranian male medical college students. A cross-sectional study was conducted among 425 male medical college students, during 2014 which was randomly selected with the proportional to size among different faculty. A standard self-report questionnaire was applied for collecting data and data were analyzed by SPSS-20 using -test, One-way ANOVA, and logistic regression statistical tests at 95% significant level. Hopelessness had significant relationship with marital status, living place, and parent's education (P < 0.05). Logistic regression showed, hopelessness was a predict cigarette smoking (OR=1.148), and alcohol drinking (OR=1.102). Our findings showed Hopelessness was an independent risk factor for cigarette smoking, and alcohol drinking; thus, Intervention strategies that lower hopelessness may be effective for smoking and alcohol use prevention.