DRUG ABUSE AMONG STUDENTS IN THE HEALTH PROFESSIONS

拟议的研究将调查医疗专业人员滥用药物的情况。 学生和实践者。 国家卫生专业人员协会 越来越关注“损害”问题（毒品和 酗酒和精神疾病）。 Current Opinion 认为医生和护士的药物滥用率相对较高， 但在其他卫生专业人员中却很低。 然而，基本上 关于这一问题的研究，特别是关于 除了医生和护士以外的专业人员。 本研究的具体目标是：1。估计吸毒的程度 （娱乐，自我治疗，并有助于全方位的 a）牙科、药学和 兽医，和B）医生和药剂师; 2.分析 结果数据沿着先前收集的未发布数据， 医学院和护理学院的学生，以及商学院的学生， 沟通、咨询、法律和社会工作; 3. 确定原因 药物滥用问题，特别是获得药物的作用 和压力 这些分析将用于评估是否有必要 在专业学校和专业人员中进行预防干预， 协会，并确定预防计划需要什么因果因素 来解决。 该调查的方法将采用自我管理，匿名 向随机抽样的1，500名学生（按 临床和临床前年）和1,000名从业人员（从专业 关联列表）。 调查问卷将衡量使用历史， 目前使用精神活性药物、使用原因（包括措施 压力，精神病理学，感觉寻求和访问），模式和 吸毒的后果和吸毒教育。 该分析将 采用描述性统计，并将使用 回归（路径）分析和可比离散数据技术 （loglinear和logistic回归）。 这项研究将是其第一个 对学生健康专业人员和从业人员来说， 对于规划和设计预防和治疗方案至关重要， 这些团体。

The proposed study would investigate drug abuse among health profession students and practitioners. State societies of health professionals have become increasingly concerned about the problems of "impairment" (drug and alcohol abuse and mental illness) among their members. Current opinion holds that drug-abuse rates are relatively high among physicians and nurses but low among other health professionals. However, there is little basic research on this question, especially with respect to drug use by professionals other than physicians and nurses. The study's specific aims are to: 1. estimate the extent of drug use (recreational, self-treatment, and instrumental for the full spectrum of psychoactive drugs) among a) students of dentistry, pharmacy, and veterinary medicine, and b) physicians and pharmacists; 2. Analyze the resulting data along with previously collected, unpublished data on students of medicine and nursing, as well as students of business, communications, counseling, law and social work; 3. Determine the causes of drug abuse among health professionals, especially the roles of access and stress. These analyses will be used to assess whether there is a need for preventive interventions in professional schools and by professional associations, and to determine what causal factors prevention programs need to address. The survey's methodology will employ self-administered, anonymous questionnaires sent to random samples of 1,500 students (stratified by clinical and preclinical years) and 1,000 practitioners (from professional association listings). The questionnaires will measure history of use and current use of psychoactive drugs, reasons for use (including measures of stress, psychopathology, sensation seeking and access), patterns and consequences of drug use, and drug abuse education. The analysis will employ descriptive statistics and will construct causal models using regression (path) analysis and comparable discrete data techniques (loglinear and logistic regression). The study will be the first of its kind for student health professionals and practitioners, and should be essential for planning and designing prevention and treatment programs for these groups.