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Collegium antropologicum, Vol. 32 No. 1, 2008.

Original scientific paper

Problem Drinking Among University Students in Malawi

Yuriy Zverev

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Abstract

A survey of 787 University of Malawi students (481 males and 306 females) using the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification
Test (AUDIT) indicated that about 72% of responders (78% of males and 63% of females) drink alcohol. The mean
AUDIT score was 3.45.3 for females and 13.28.9 for males. Some 54.1% of males and 16.5% of females had the AUDIT
score above the threshold level of 8.0, which corresponded with high mean values of alcohol consumption per week
(222.8162.7 g of pure ethanol for males and 100.398.3 g for females). In addition, about 74.4 % of male students and
27.3 % of females reported episodes of heavy drinking. The findings stressed the need for developing of alcohol control
policies in the University of Malawi and in the country as a whole.

Keywords

AUDIT; Malawi; students

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22727

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https://hrcak.srce.hr/22727

Publication date:

8.5.2008.

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