Medical Student Attitudes and Alcohol Use Knowledge in Southeastern Brazil

Aline Silva de Aguiar's study includes data from 371 medical students across three federal universities in southeastern Brazil. The cross-sectional research collected sociodemographic data and applied scales to evaluate attitudes, knowledge, and alcohol consumption patterns. Results indicate 60.4% of students reported binge drinking, and 30.7% exhibited risk behavior for alcohol consumption.

Use Cases

• Analyzing correlations between personal drinking patterns and professional attitudes based on the Audit and attitude evaluation scales.
• Modeling knowledge progression across academic semesters using the knowledge of scientific information scale scores.
• Comparing behavioral and attitudinal outcomes across different universities as described in the study results.

Strengths

• Includes data from 371 medical students, providing a substantive sample size.
• Applies multiple validated instruments: attitude evaluation scale, knowledge scale, and Audit for alcohol problems.
• Sampled students from three distinct federal universities (UFF, UFJF, Unifesp) across three academic semesters.

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Provenance

Source

Aline Silva de Aguiar via paperswithcode

Collection Method

Cross-sectional study involving randomly selected students from three federal universities.

Geography

Southeastern Brazil (Universities: UFF, UFJF, Unifesp)