AU - Shams Alizadeh, Nrges AU - Moghadam, Marzieh AU - Mohsenpour, Behzad AU - Rostami Gooran, Narges TI - Prevalence of substance abuse in medical students of Kurdistan University PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE TA - HBI_Journals JN - HBI_Journals VO - 13 VI - 2 IP - 2 4099 - http://sjku.muk.ac.ir/article-1-58-en.html 4100 - http://sjku.muk.ac.ir/article-1-58-en.pdf SO - HBI_Journals 2 ABĀ  - ABSTRACT Background and Aim: Substance abuse is one of the most prevalent problems in young adults. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence rate of substance abuse among Kurdistan university students. Material and Methods: This was a cross sectional and descriptive analytic study. The sampling method was census and sample size included all students of Kurdistan University (1186 student) in 2007. The data were collected and recorded in a questionnaire for each subject. Data were introduced into SPSS software and analyzed by mean of x2 test. Results: The results of this study indicated the percentage of students who reported usage of substance one or more times in their lives as following: alcohol 17.1, cannabis 4.7%, opium 4.8%, heroin 0.7%, ecstasy 2.7, and other substances 5.2. Ongoing abuse of different substances was assessed as following: alcohol 1.1%, cannabis 0.1%, opium 0.1%, heroin 0.1 %, ecstasy 0.1%, other substances 0.2. There was a correlation between substance abuse and male gender (p CP - IRAN IN - Psychiatry, Dept., Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Ghods Hospital, Sanandaj, Iran LG - eng PB - HBI_Journals PG - 18 PT - Original Research YR - 2008