Association between Current Substance Use, Healthy Behaviors, and Depression among Ukrainian College Students
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Participants and Data Collection
2.2. Measures
2.3. Data Analyses
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Variables | n (%) | |
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Age | Mean ± SD | 19.06 ± 1.6 |
Age Category | 17–19 years | 664 (66.6%) |
20–21 years | 242 (24.3%) | |
22–24 years | 91 (9.1%) | |
Sex | Male | 314 (31.5%) |
Female | 683 (68.5%) | |
Program of Study | Social Work | 286 (29.0%) |
Medical School | 126 (12.0%) | |
Pedagogy | 94 (9.4%) | |
Psychology | 388 (39.0%) | |
Educational Therapy | 103 (10.3%) | |
Employment Status | Employed | 180 (18.1%) |
Not Employed | 748 (75.0%) | |
Missing | 69 (6.9%) | |
Relationship Status | Single, Never Married | 892 (89.5%) |
All Other | 105 (10.5%) | |
Region | Central | 285 (28.6%) |
Western | 260 (26.1%) | |
Eastern | 433 (43.4%) | |
Southern | 19 (1.9%) | |
Ethnicity/Nationality | Ukrainian | 962 (96.5%) |
Russian | 15 (1.5%) | |
All Other | 20 (2.0%) |
M | SD | p | |
---|---|---|---|
Age Category | <0.001 | ||
17–19 years | 7.32 | 4.86 | |
20–21 years | 9.15 | 5.37 | |
22–24 years | 9.28 | 5.45 | |
Sex | <0.001 | ||
Male | 7.00 | 4.70 | |
Female | 8.36 | 5.24 |
Variable 1 | M | SD | Cronbach’s Alpha | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 Depression (CESD) | 7.9 | 5.1 | 0.84 | - | ||||
2 Tobacco use risk score (ASSIST) | 6.1 | 8.7 | 0.84 | 0.15 *** | - | |||
3 Alcohol use risk score (ASSIST) | 6.1 | 6.3 | 0.73 | 0.28 *** | 0.44 *** | - | ||
4 Cannabis use risk score (ASSIST) | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.63 | 0.18 *** | 0.33 *** | 0.36 *** | - | |
5 Health-promoting behaviors (AHPS) | 68.1 | 14.1 | 0.91 | −0.30 *** | −0.14 *** | −0.17 *** | −0.01 | - |
Predictor | Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 3 | ||||||
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B | β | SE | B | β | SE | B | β | SE | |
Age category 20–21 years a | 1.58 *** | 0.13 | 0.41 | 1.26 ** | 0.10 | 0.43 | 1.13 * | 0.09 | 0.42 |
Age category 22–24 years | 1.81 ** | 0.09 | 0.60 | 1.73 * | 0.09 | 0.62 | 1.63 * | 0.09 | 0.60 |
Sex | −1.00 * | −0.09 | 0.36 | −0.73 | −0.06 | 0.42 | −0.66 | −0.06 | 0.41 |
Tobacco use risk score (ASSIST) | 0.03 | 0.05 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.02 | |||
Alcohol use risk score (ASSIST) | 0.17 *** | 0.20 | 0.03 | 0.14 *** | 0.17 | 0.03 | |||
Cannabis use risk score (ASSIST) | 1.36 * | 0.09 | 0.55 | 1.61 ** | 0.11 | 0.53 | |||
Health-promoting behaviors score (AHPS) | −0.10 *** | −0.25 | 0 | ||||||
Intercept | 7.72 | 6.55 | 13.45 | ||||||
R2 | 0.04 | 0.11 | 0.17 | ||||||
∆R2 | 0.07 *** | 0.06 *** | |||||||
F | 11.71 | 15.43 | 22.31 |
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Burlaka, J.; Johnson, R.M.; Marsack-Topolewski, C.N.; Hughesdon, K.; Owczarzak, J.; Serdiuk, O.; Bogdanov, R.; Burlaka, V. Association between Current Substance Use, Healthy Behaviors, and Depression among Ukrainian College Students. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2024, 21, 586. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21050586
Burlaka J, Johnson RM, Marsack-Topolewski CN, Hughesdon K, Owczarzak J, Serdiuk O, Bogdanov R, Burlaka V. Association between Current Substance Use, Healthy Behaviors, and Depression among Ukrainian College Students. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2024; 21(5):586. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21050586
Chicago/Turabian StyleBurlaka, Julia, Renee M. Johnson, Christina N. Marsack-Topolewski, Kathryn Hughesdon, Jill Owczarzak, Oleksii Serdiuk, Roman Bogdanov, and Viktor Burlaka. 2024. "Association between Current Substance Use, Healthy Behaviors, and Depression among Ukrainian College Students" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 21, no. 5: 586. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21050586