Illegal Drugs Usage Among Saudi University Students
Illegal drugs usage among Saudi university students (online survey)
keywords: illegal drugs, illicit drugs, substance abuse, students, pupils, Saudi Arabia
Aim
The main aim of the study is to estimate the prevalence of illegal drug usage among Saudi university students,
Study questions
1. What is the percentage of Saudi university Student who have used illegal drugs in one point of their lives.
2. what are the most common drugs used by the Saudi students.
3. is there any relationship between using an illegal drug and using other drugs.
Method
an online survey will be used to collect the data for this study by asking the student to anonymously fill a specifically designed questionnaire.
Population and sample
the study population is all the students who study in Saudi universities whatever their origin is. The sample will be formed by all the students who are willing to fill the questionnaire of this study.
Settings
Three different universities across Saudi Arabia will be the study settings
Illegal drug usage among Saudi university students (Online survey)
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TOC \o "1-3" \h \z \u HYPERLINK \l "_Toc438015082" INTRODUCTION PAGEREF _Toc438015082 \h 3
HYPERLINK \l "_Toc438015083" BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY PAGEREF _Toc438015083 \h 4
HYPERLINK \l "_Toc438015084" Search strategy and Boolean operators PAGEREF _Toc438015084 \h 4
HYPERLINK \l "_Toc438015085" Inclusion/ exclusion criteria PAGEREF _Toc438015085 \h 5
HYPERLINK \l "_Toc438015086" Literature review PAGEREF _Toc438015086 \h 5
HYPERLINK \l "_Toc438015087" STUDY DESIGN 10
HYPERLINK \l "_Toc438015088" Sample PAGEREF _Toc438015088 \h 15
HYPERLINK \l "_Toc438015089" Data collection PAGEREF _Toc438015089 \h 15
HYPERLINK \l "_Toc438015090" Data analysis PAGEREF _Toc438015090 \h 16
HYPERLINK \l "_Toc438015091" Ethical issues PAGEREF _Toc438015091 \h 17
HYPERLINK \l "_Toc438015092" CONCLUSION PAGEREF _Toc438015092 \h 18
HYPERLINK \l "_Toc438015093" Reference list 19
INTRODUCTION
The study seeks to understand the prevalence of drug abuse among Saudi Arabian university students. To ensure confidentiality and anonymity the study will use an online study, and the results will then be analyzed to determine the percentage of the students who have been involved in illegal drug abuse at one point in time. Additionally, the study will identify the most common types of drugs that are abused by the Saudi students. The study will also seek to establish whether using illegal drugs is related to drug abuse, including certain drugs being the gateway to other harder drugs. Substance abuse is a concern to public health workers since it increased the healthcare burden, while illegal drug use is associated with the growing psychological problems. In the Gulf Arabian region, the main forms of substance are tobacco and illegal drugs, heroin, hashish and to some extent alcohol (Al-Haqwi, 2010, p. 2). The rising cases of substance use is a concern, while the rapidly changing social transitions mean that there is a risk that drug abuse may become a worse public health concern if there are no measures to deal with the problem. There have been past allegations of drug trafficking of hard drugs like cocaine and hashish involving some family members of the Saudi royalty, but accessing such information is difficult as the state controls the media (O’Grady, 2015).
Students joining universities have more independence from their families, while this also provides opportunities for self-exploration. Additionally, the peer pressure and self-decision making opportunities available means that university students are at high risk of substance abuse compared to other young people who live with or near their family members. Substance abuse increases risk of dependence, and intervention programmes need to focus on strategies to eliminate substance abuse the Ministry of Health in Saudi Arabia has reported increased cases of people seeking specialized psychiatric services, and this could partly be because of substance abuse (Ministry of Health Saudi Arabia, 2012).
Even as the problem of subs...
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