Hazardous levels of alcohol is consumed by 43% of nursing students, with 14.9% of men and 16.7% of women meeting the criteria for hazardous drinkers, found a new study. Hazardous drinkers were more likely to be young, to smoke, and to live outside the family nucleus.
"Alcohol-prevention activities should envisage greater protection of university settings, particularly where future health professionals are involved," wrote the authors of the Journal of Advanced Nursing study.
Source-Eurekalert