ATTITUDES, KNOWLEDGE AND ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION IN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: NURSING INTERVENTION

Javier Salazar Mendoza*, Edith Castellanos Contreras, Jesús Radai López Posadas, Pedro González Angulo, Roberto Alejandro González Riego, Brenda Carral Hernández and Claudia Beatriz Enríquez Hernández

ABSTRACT

Introduction: The World Health Organization[1] point out, also, it urges their members to work quickly to promote health, expanding safe and effective interventions with the students’ participation, to provide them and their parents, knowledge and skills to face potential risks, allowing access to appropriate services and support, this Intervention was handled under the approach of Nola J Pender’s Theory, looking for the student to adopt health promoting behaviors., the objective: determine the effect of an intervention to improve attitudes, knowledge and decrease alcohol consumption, in university students. Methodology: Quasi-experimental, quali-quantitative design of chronological order, performing 9 sessions for the intervention group (10 students), and 4 sessions for the control (10 students), measurements: before, during and after, applying the Scale of attitudes and habits in the consumption of Alcohol[2] adhering to the provisions of the General Health Law of Mexico and the Declaration of Helsinki of the World Medical Association. Result: The data were analyzed in the statistical package SPSS, Version 21 for Lions MAC OS Operating System; applying descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage, measures of central tendency: medical, median and mode) and inferential: Shapiro-Wilks, Student's T, Mann-Whitney U and Square Chi. The control group did not present a significant difference, while the intervention group significantly reduced consumption after the 5th sesión, those who continued to do so increased knowledge and attitudes. Conclusions: The intervention was effective, reducing alcohol consumption in university students in both men and women, allowing them to adopt health promotion behaviors, coinciding with authors who express that these interventions in this group of people are effective.

Keywords: Nursing intervention, Nursing students, attitudes, knowledge, consumption of alcoholic beverages, alcoholism.