Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Journal of Psychiatric Nursing, cilt.12, sa.3, ss.237-244, 2021 (ESCI, Scopus, TRDizin)
INTRODUCTION: This study is to determine the relation between eating attitudes and risk of alcohol and substance addiction and the affecting factors of nursing college students. METHODS: The sample of this descriptive and correlational study was conducted with students who take education at Nursing in Faculty of Health Sciences (n=477). Analyses of datas, which were collected using Eating Attitudes Test (EAT), Addiction Profile Index (BAPI-Alcohol) for Alcohol Scale and Addiction Profile Index (BAPI-Substance) for Substance Scale, were performed with percentile distributions, averages, Mann-Whitney U test, Kruskal Wallis test and Sperman Correlation Analysis. RESULTS: The mean age of the students were 20.83±1.59, 88.9% were women, 27.9% 2nd grade in university. EAT mean scores of 15.84±10.87, APIRS-alcohol scale mean scores 0.59±1.54 and APIRS-Drug scale mean scores were 0.15±0.92 of students. It was determined 8.0% of students have eating disorder, 9.2% of students have high risk of alcohol use and 1.9% of students have high risk of substance use. There was a significant positive relation between students with eating disorders and with high risk groups in terms of substance use (r=0.105, p=0.021). In addition, There was a significant positive relation between students with eating disorders and with high risk groups in terms of alcohol use (r=0.097, p=0.034). Students who have eating disorders and found significant positive relation between have high risk of substance use (p<0.001). There was statistically significant positive correlation between the risk of alcohol use and the risk of substance use of the participants (r=0.402, p<0.001). DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: It was determined that students who have eating disorders were high risk of substance use and Alcohol use. High risk for alcohol use were also found to be high risk for substance use.