ANALYSIS OF FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DRUG PHENOMENON IN STUDENTS OF SECOND AND FOURTH YEAR OF “LICENCIATURA EN ENFERMERÍA”

Abstract

This article presents the results of quantitative study, descriptive and transverse. The sample was of 214 students that studied their fourth year on the nursing degree. They answered a questionnaire which was previously validated. The study evidenced that students possess certain factors that protect them against drug usage or the advance of drug habits; but at the same time they have risk factors which must be taken into consideration in prevention programs, such as: non-healthy life styles and drug abusage in people close to them, be it family, friends or classmates.
Also we found that the used drug´s profile, was similar to the one found nationally and internationally; in the first place of drug usage was alcohol, followed by tobacco, then by marihuana and cocaine.