Clinical trial NCT05115981: Psychoactive Drug Uses Among Medical and Pharmacy Students
Official title: Psychoactive Drug Uses Among Medical and Pharmacy Students
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Psychoactive Substance Use Disorder
Lead sponsor: University Hospital, Grenoble
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2021-11-10
Enrollment: 1930
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: CASE_CONTROL
Time perspective: RETROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: medical and pharmacy students, from the 2nd to the 6th year, in France

Brief summary: Drug addiction to psychoactive substances, widely consumed in France, represents a major public health issue. The three main motivations identified for the consumption of psychostimulants would be self-medication, the party aspect and the improvement of school performance. Students of medicine and pharmacy are a population exposed to academic and professional stress, vulnerable to health problems and psycho-social disorders (anxiety, depression), with direct access to many drugs at their workplace. Almost a third of these students declared to consume these products to improve their cognitive performance, while a recent study showed that they take them instead to manage their stress and sleep. However, no study has characterized all the different uses of psychoactive drugs (PAD) in this population, nor the motivations for consumption, while an analysis of motives would help to develop better screening and prevention strategies. The main objective of the research is to characterize the motivations for PAD consumption among students of medicine and pharmacy in France. The most represented motives will be analyzed on the questionnaire of motivations for consumption (threshold frequency ≥20%). The secondary objectives are to identify the risk factors linked to the individual, to the environment and to drugs in students with PAD use disorders regardless of their motivation and in those using to improve their performance.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Being of legal age
* Studying medicine or pharmacy in France from the 2nd to the 6th year
* Have read the newsletter and validated its no objection
* Have answered all the questions
* Validate the return of the questionnaire

Exclusion Criteria:

* partial filling of the online questionnaire

Primary outcomes:
measure: The main objective of the research is to characterize the motivations for psychoactive drugs consumption among medical and pharmacy students in France.
timeFrame: two months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: In students with a psychoactive drug use disorder whatever their motivations, identify the risk factors related to the individual (anxiety)
timeFrame: two months
measure: In students with a psychoactive drug use disorder whatever their motivations, identify the risk factors related to the individual (depression)
timeFrame: two months
measure: In students with a psychoactive drug use disorder whatever their motivations, identify the risk factors related to the environment
timeFrame: two months
measure: In students with a psychoactive drug use disorder whatever their motivations, identify the risk factors related to drugs.
timeFrame: two months
measure: In students with psychoactive drug use disorder for doping purposes, identify risk factors related to the individual (anxiety)
timeFrame: two months
measure: In students with psychoactive drug use disorder for doping purposes, identify risk factors related to the individual (depression)
timeFrame: two months
measure: In students with psychoactive drug use disorder for doping purposes, identify risk factors related to the environment
timeFrame: two months
measure: In students with psychoactive drug use disorder for doping purposes, identify risk factors related to drugs.
timeFrame: two months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Grenoble
country: France
facility: Grenoble_Alpes UniversityHospital
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