ABSTRACT
This study was carried out to investigate, alcohol consumption and its associated factors among undergraduates in university of Benin the study reviewed related literature on Concept of alcohol, Factors that promote alcohol abuse, expert view on the effects of the use of alcohol, behavioural risk associated with alcohol abuse, effect of alcohol, Reason for the use of alcohol, summary of review of related literature.
Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study and a simple random sampling technique was used in selecting the sample population for the study from the various faculties in University of Benin. Questionnaire was shared to 381 undergraduate students in University of Benin, Benin City, Edo State. The responses of the respondents were analysed using mean and standard deviation.
The following were found during the course of the analysis. It was found that excessive drinking can cause alcohol hepatitis, sleep disturbances, depression and can increase the risk of many forms of cancer, it was also found that a high prevalence of alcohol consumption among undergraduates has led to liver disease. It was found that peers, family members and friends contribute to the behavioural and socio-environmental factors that influence the excessive intake of alcohol.It was recommended that the school management should reduce or place a ban on sales of alcohol drinks and that the government should create an awareness on the dangers of excessive alcohol intake.
It was recommended that parents should discourage their children from taking alcohol and government should create and enforce the strict policy against alcohol consumption within the school premise, it was recommended that school management should create other form of activities to ease the stress that undergraduate students encounter and also that more counseling centers should be established within and outside the school to help students going through alcohol issues and lastly recommended that school administration should add alcohol education to the curriculum.
