Peer substance use overestimation among French university students: a cross-sectional survey

BMC Public Health

Research Article

Bertrand Dautzenberg¹  Lionel Riou Franca²  Bruno Falissard³  Michel Reynaud⁴ 

[1] Faculté de Médecine Pierre et Marie Curie, UPRES EA2397 - 91, 105 boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013, Paris, France;Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Service de pneumologie et réanimation - GH Pitié Salpêtrière Division Montyon, 75651, Paris cedex 13, France;INSERM U669 - Maison de Solenn - 97, bvd de Port-Royal - 75679, Paris Cedex 14, France;Université Paris 6 - Pierre et Marie Curie - 4 place Jussieu - 75005, Paris, France;INSERM U669 - Maison de Solenn - 97, bvd de Port-Royal - 75679, Paris Cedex 14, France;Université Paris-Sud 11 and Université Paris Descartes 5 - UMR-S0669 - Maison de Solenn - 97, boulevard de Port-Royal, 75679, Paris cedex 14, France;Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Hôpital Paul Brousse, département de santé publique - 12, 94804, avenue Paul-Vaillant-Couturier, Villejuif Cedex;INSERM U669 - Maison de Solenn - 97, bvd de Port-Royal - 75679, Paris Cedex 14, France;Université Paris-Sud 11 and Université Paris Descartes 5 - UMR-S0669 - Maison de Solenn - 97, boulevard de Port-Royal, 75679, Paris cedex 14, France;Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Hôpital Paul Brousse, unité fonctionnelle d'addictologie - 12, 94804, avenue Paul-Vaillant-Couturier, Villejuif Cedex;

关键词: Social Norm;    Academic Discipline;    Cannabis User;    Substance User;    Heavy Episodic Drinking;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2458-10-169

 received in 2009-02-18, accepted in 2010-03-29,  发布年份 2010

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundNormative misperceptions have been widely documented for alcohol use among U.S. college students. There is less research on other substances or European cultural contexts. This study explores which factors are associated with alcohol, tobacco and cannabis use misperceptions among French college students, focusing on substance use.Methods12 classes of second-year college students (n = 731) in sociology, medicine, nursing or foreign language estimated the proportion of tobacco, cannabis, alcohol use and heavy episodic drinking among their peers and reported their own use.ResultsPeer substance use overestimation frequency was 84% for tobacco, 55% for cannabis, 37% for alcohol and 56% for heavy episodic drinking. Cannabis users (p = 0.006), alcohol (p = 0.003) and heavy episodic drinkers (p = 0.002), are more likely to overestimate the prevalence of use of these consumptions. Tobacco users are less likely to overestimate peer prevalence of smoking (p = 0.044). Women are more likely to overestimate tobacco (p < 0.001) and heavy episodic drinking (p = 0.007) prevalence. Students having already completed another substance use questionnaire were more likely to overestimate alcohol use prevalence (p = 0.012). Students exposed to cannabis prevention campaigns were more likely to overestimate cannabis (p = 0.018) and tobacco use (p = 0.022) prevalence. Other identified factors are class-level use prevalences and academic discipline.ConclusionsLocal interventions that focus on creating realistic perceptions of substance use prevalence could be considered for cannabis and alcohol prevention in French campuses.

【 授权许可】

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© Franca et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2010. This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.