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Introduction:Cannabis is the drug which use is the mostwidespread in the world, and particularly among young people. Medical students are not the exception. Exposure to a variety of factors, including stress, burnout, and relatively easy access to medications make them vulnerable to substance use. Objective: to study the prevalence of cannabis use among medical students and to assess its repercussions in terms of anxiety and depression. Methods: It is a descriptive and analytical cross-sectional study of medical students of different medical schools in Morocco. Data collection was through an anonymous online self-administered survey. The measuring instruments used were surveys evaluating the main socio-demographic data, the CASTfor identifying problematic cannabis use, and the HAD scale which evaluates anxiety and depression in the group. The data is grouped and analysed by statistical software. Results: In this sample of 183 students (44.8% boys, 55.2% girls), the average age was 23.31 years. 21% had a psychiatric history. 32.2% consumed cannabis, half occasionally versus a third on a daily basis. Men had higher consumption rates than women with a significant difference. For the CAST results, 40% of cannabis users had a high risk of addiction. Anxiety score averaged 7.66 cannabis users and 5.52 for non-users, depression score averaged 5.88 users and 4.43 for non-users with significantly higher averages among users. Conclusion:Medicalstudentsseemparticularlyaffected by addictions. They must benefitfrom an assistance in order to improvetheirhealth, sothey can exercisetheirrole and be able to provide care to patients.
Medical Student Cannabis Anxiety Depression
Medical Student Cannabis Anxiety Depression
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