Drinking Patterns and Behavioral Consequences: A Cross-Sectional Study Among Romanian University Students

Scoring reported problems resulting from drinking

Problems	Low risk drinkers (mean±SD)	At risk drinkers (mean±SD)	t (t test)	p value
Physical problems	4.77± 2.35	6.44± 2.28	5.71	< 0.001
Problems related to car driving	4.60± 2.07	4.75± 1.85	0.588	< 0.05
Problems related to academic performance	5.07± 2.36	6.32± 2.65	4.133	< 0.001
Problems with authorities	2.15± 0.83	2.09± 0.40	0.619	>0.05
Problems with violence	2.34± 1.20	2.44± 1.18	0.645	>0.05
Others	5.77± 2.21	6.43± 2.73	2.66	0.02

Multivariate analyses between categories of drinkers and hours of individual study/week and grade point average in the previous semester_

Categories of drinkers	Hours of individual study/week Anova F=3.242, df=5, p=0.007	Grade point average in the previous semester Anova F=0.454, df=5, p=0.810
Abstainers	21.31±13.76	8.04±0.93
Low risk drinkers	18.95±13.09	8.43±6.17
At risk drinkers	15.77±10.32	7.80±1.08
Total	19.13±14.30	8.48±5.53

The alcohol intake depending on characteristics of the study group_

Variables	The number of respondents (percent)	Total g of absolute alcohol/week	t t test or F Anova	p
Gender
Male	166 (35.5)	118.30±126.84	t=2.78	< 0.001
Female	302 (64.5)	84.11±112.77
Age (mean±SD)	21.9±3.22 years
Year of study
1st	144 (30.8)	67.19±100.87	F=8.62	0.004
3rd	171(36.5)	88.70±126.67
4th	153 (32.7)	92.73±110.94
Living situation
With parents	132 (28.2)	84.73±121.77	F=0.742	0.564
Rented apartment (alone)	72 (15.4)	118.16±132.54
With other friends (rented apartment)	119 (25.4)	95.17±102.47
University Campus (dormitories)	119 (25.4)	93.30±115.63
Private university building	16 (3.4)	118.47±170.62
non-respondents NR	10(2.2)
Marital status
unmarried	282 (60.2)	84.68±118.46	F=0.320	< 0.001
in a relationship	168 (35.9)	79.51±99.10
married	13 (2.8)	89.56±134.72
divorced	5 (1.1)		126.10±271.90
The importance of religion
Important	178 (38.05)	65.68±90.68	t=0.178	< 0.001
Not important	289 (61.75)	110.85±127.69
non-respondents NR	1(0.2)

Amounts of alcohol consumed, by the type of beverage and percentage of absolute alcohol contained in it_

Categories of drinkers	Low risk drinkers Males	Low risk drinkers Females	At risk drinkers Males	At risk drinkers Females
Grams of beer/ week (mean±SD)	34.71± 47.27	12.40± 13.99	179.97± 88.85	147.23± 96.41
Grams of wine/ week (mean±SD)	34.71± 47.24	12.72± 12.61	89.17± 80.15	99.32± 85.74
Grams of spirits/ week (mean±SD)	10.77± 14.79	9.64±1 6.74	45.26± 63.64	38.91± 58.72
Total Grams of alcohol/week (mean±SD)	64.19± 57.60	34.77± 27.08	314.44± 115.49	285.47± 105.503

Categories of drinkers by gender_

Categories of drinkers	Total number (%)	Males number (%)	Females number (%)
Abstainers	71 (15.2)	18 (10.8)	53 (17.6)
Low risk drinkers	316 (67.5)	116 (69.9)	200 (66.2)
At risk drinkers	81 (17.3)	32 (19.3)	49 (16.2)