ASSESSMENT OF HARMFUL ALCOHOL USE AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCY AMONGST UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT NURSES IN EDO STATE UNIVERSITY UZAIRUE

The Study Examined The Assessment Of Harmful Alcohol Use And Alcohol Dependency Among Undergraduate Students Nurses In Edo State University Uzairue. In order to guide the study, three research objectives were formulated a descriptive cross-sectional design was used. The instrument used for data collections was structured questionnaire. The population for the study consisted of undergraduate nurses of Edo State University Uzairue, Edo State a sample size of one hundred and thirty (130) undergraduate students was drawn from the entire population using non probability convenient sampling technique. Data was obtained via self administered questionnaire. An analysis was done using a statistics package called SPSS-22. Findings show that out of the total respondents in the main sample (130 respondent) 50% found getting drunk more important than their meal, 41% drank as much as they wanted irrespective of what were they doing the next day. Also from the calculated chi-square it was found that there is no Relationship Between Alcohol Dependence Among Undergraduate Students Nurses With Their Selected Socio-Demographic Variables having p-values of the variables as ( age: P=0.119, gender; P=0.132, religion: P=0.073, Marital status: 0.295). In conclusion the findings of this study revealed that most students (90%) in University were exposed to Alcohol. Recommendation were put forward that concern stakeholders should encourage the benefits of healthy lifestyle choices and development of sills needed in making informed and responsible decisions to resist alcohol dependence among students. Also the government should enforce laws to regulate the production and consumption of the local breweries which seem to be the bases where students learn the behavior of alcohol abuse. KEYWORDS: Alcohol Dependence, Alcohol Use, Undergraduate, Students Nurses.