# Consumption of Energy Drinks among University Students in Eastern Croatia
## 3 Results
### Consumption of EDs
\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{l c c c c} \hline \hline \multirow{2}{*}{**Participants’ Sociodemographic Characteristics and Habits**} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{**N (\%)**} & \multirow{2}{*}{\(p\) *} \\ \cline{2-3} \cline{5-5}  & **Do Not Drink** & & & \\ \hline
**Sex** & & & & \\ \hline Male & 40 (36.0) & 71 (64.0) & 111 (100.0) & \\ \hline Female & 162 (51.8) & 151 (48.2) & 313 (100.0) & \\ \hline
**The faculty subject area (field of science)** & & & & \\ \hline The field of humanities and arts field & 40 (60.6) & 26 (39.4) & 66 (100.0) & \\ \hline The social field of science & 71 (43.3) & 93 (56.7) & 164 (100.0) & \\ \hline The technical field of science & 8 (47.1) & 9 (52.9) & 17 (100.0) & 0.085 \\ \hline The biomedicine and natural science & 46 (52.9) & 41 (47.1) & 87 (100.0) & \\ \hline The biotechnical field of science & 37 (41.1) & 53 (58.9) & 90 (100.0) & \\ \hline
**The repetition of the year of the study** & & & & \\ \hline No & 139 (45.0) & 170 (55.0) & 309 (100.0) & 0.081 \\ \hline Yes & 63 (54.8) & 52 (45.2) & 115 (100.0) & \\ \hline
**Playing sports** & & & & \\ \hline No & 102 (54.0) & 87 (46.0) & 189 (100.0) & 0.024 \\ \hline Yes & 100 (42.6) & 135 (57.4) & 235 (100.0) & \\ \hline
**Learning on nutrition** & & & & \\ \hline No & 119 (48.2) & 128 (51.8) & 247 (100.0) & 0.844 \\ \hline Yes & 83 (46.9) & 94 (53.1) & 177 (100.0) & \\ \hline
**Cigarette smoking** & & & & \\ \hline No & 151 (51.2) & 144 (48.8) & 295 (100.0) & 0.034 \\ \hline Yes & 51 (39.5) & 78 (60.5) & 129 (100.0) & \\ \hline
**Coffee intake** & & & & \\ \hline No & 68 (52.3) & 62 (47.7) & 130 (100.0) & 0.208 \\ \hline Yes & 134 (45.6) & 160 (54.4) & 294 (100.0) & \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}  
* \(\chi^{2}\)-test; N-number of participants.  
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Table 3: Participants’ consumption of EDs according to their sociodemographic characteristics and habits. statistically significant differences in the consumption of EDs according to the repetition of the year of the study (x\({}^{2}\)-test; \(p\) = 0.081). According to their sports habits, students who play sports either recreationally or professionally were significantly more likely to consume EDs than students who do not play sports (x\({}^{2}\)-test; \(p\) = 0.024). Additionally, there were no statistically significant differences in the consumption of EDs concerning nutrition education at the faculty (x\({}^{2}\)-test; \(p\) = 0.844). Yet, smokers were significantly more likely to consume EDs than non-smokers (x\({}^{2}\)-test; \(p\) = 0.034), while there were no statistically significant differences regarding their routine of coffee consumption (x\({}^{2}\)-test; \(p\) = 0.208). When looking at those who consume EDs and the amount of consumed EDs on one occasion, there were 69 (31.1%) of those consuming less than one can and 144 (64.9%) of those consuming one can while there were only 9 (4.1%) of those consuming more than one can of EDs on one occasion. It is visible from Table 4 that men consume a higher amount of EDs significantly more often during one occasion in comparison to females ([PERSON]'s exact test; \(p\) < 0.001). The study did not reveal differences in the amount of EDs consumed on one occasion between students who repeated the year of study and those who did not repeat it ([PERSON]'s exact test; \(p\) = 0.134). There were also no differences in the amount of EDs consumed on one occasion between students who played sports and those who did not play sports ([PERSON]'s exact test; \(p\) = 0.068). Finally, the study did not discover differences in the amount of EDs consumed on one occasion between students who had nutrition education at the faculty and those who did not have such education ([PERSON]'s exact test; \(p\) = 0.940). The study further revealed that among those students who consume EDs there were 167 (75.2%) students who mixed EDs with alcohol.