Prevalence of and Factors Associated With Substance Use Among Canadian Medical Students

Anees Bahji; Marlon Danilewitz; Eva Guerin; Brandon Maser; Erica Frank

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.33994

Prevalence of and Factors Associated With Substance Use Among Canadian Medical Students

JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Nov 1;4(11):e2133994. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.33994.

Authors

Anees Bahji^{1

2}, Marlon Danilewitz³, Eva Guerin⁴, Brandon Maser⁵, Erica Frank^{6

7}

Affiliations

¹ Cumming School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
² The British Columbia Centre on Substance Use, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
³ Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁴ Department of Psychology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
⁵ Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁶ The University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
⁷ The Annenberg Physician Training Program in Addiction Medicine, Bethel, Minnesota.

Abstract

This cross-sectional study investigates the national prevalence of tobacco, alcohol, cannabis, and nonmedical prescription stimulant use among Canadian medical students.

Publication types

Multicenter Study

MeSH terms

Adult
Canada / epidemiology
Cross-Sectional Studies
Female
Humans
Male
Prevalence
Students, Medical / statistics & numerical data*
Substance-Related Disorders / epidemiology*
Surveys and Questionnaires
Young Adult

Grants and funding

R25 DA037756/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States