Medical Students’ Views on Cannabis Use in Recreational Contexts Are Related to Their Own Consumption Intention

Bibliographic Data

ID13025601
AuthorsAnca-Livia Panfil (0000-0001-6128-0286, Victor Babeș University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timișoara), Simona C Tamasan (Victor Babeș University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timișoara), Lucretia Marin-Bancila (Victor Babeș University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timișoara), Bianca Matei (Victor Babeș University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timișoara), Minas G Musca (Victor Babeș University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timișoara), Claudia C Vasilian, Alina Petrică (0000-0002-0699-710X, Spitalul Clinic Judeţean de Urgenţă "Pius Brînzeu" Timişoara), Diana Lungeanu (0000-0002-0274-1377, Victor Babeș University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timișoara, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume14
Issue4
Pages52-52
Publication date2024-04-11
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocieties (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2075-4698 • E-ISSN: 2075-4698
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/soc14040052
OpenAlexW4394763279
LanguageEN
References cited84

Health professionals are regarded as important sources of information and guidance for healthy living. Knowing health determinants and risks, and invested with credibility in society, many struggle with their own human limits to apply these principles. A cross-sectional study was conducted among advanced medical students to assess their attitude towards recreational cannabis consumption, intention to use it, and their opinion of its legal status. Secondary objectives were to explore the relation of these primary outcomes to: (a) potentially addictive habits (such as smoking and drinking); (b) individuals’ disturbances in self-organization (DSOs), defined in the ICD-11 as pervasive chronic effects of traumatic experiences or stressful events. An anonymous online questionnaire active in November 2022 collected data from 171 medical students, of which almost 56% were in favor of recreational cannabis legalization. In a logistic regression analysis, each additional point of own consumption intention (on a scale from 1 to 5) was found to increase the odds of a positive opinion of legalization by three times, when controlling for gender, age, smoking, drinking, onset age of smoking, and DSO: OR = 2.918, 95%CI (1.893–4.497). In conclusion, health professionals’ personal beliefs and practices regarding substance use have a significant subjective component

Addiction · Cannabis · Consumption (sociology · Credibility · Environmental health · Family medicine · Legalization · Logistic regression · Odds · Political science · Psychiatry · Recreation · Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research · Clinical Psychology · Homelessness and Social Issues · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes

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