The relation between alcohol, tobacco and stress in nursing students

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: This study characterizes stress of the Nursing student, its relation with the academic learning process and the use of psychoactive substances. METHODS: This is a transversal, descriptive study with 149 students, in Londrina-PR, in 2012. We used the Stress Scale Evaluation on the Nursing Student and the Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test. The analysis was done with the Statistical Package for Social Sciences, v.15, through Kruskal-Wallis, Jonckheere-Terpstra tests and Spearman Correlation, in level α<0.05. RESULTS: We identified a higher prevalence of tobacco consumption, differences in the level of stress during the series, a weak negative correlation between stress and tobacco, and a weak positive correlation regarding the consumption of alcohol and stress. CONCLUSION: The study has contributed to describe the relations between stress, the academic learning process and the use of alcohol and tobacco.