The effect of addiction on university students

Results and discussion

Engl-201 – 18

Name & ID:

Tarek Abdelrahman Kamel - 202001481

Kareem Mahmoud Hassan - 202002265

Adel Ahmed - 202000732

Besher Mahmoud - 211000786

Submitted to:

Dr. Lobna El-Khabaty

 Table of Contents

Results…………………………………………………………………………3

Discussion……………………………………………………………………..
 Results

Charts and tables are used in this section to explain the questionnaire's quantitative and

qualitative findings for the reader.

4.1 Description of Participants

These questions determined whether the responder would continue to the next sections of the

questionnaire. The questions were “What is your gender?”, “How old are you?”, “Are you a

student at university”, “If your answer yes, what is your university?” and “What do you know

about drugs?”, “Do you think drug abuse affects academic performance?”, “Have you ever been

a friend with someone who used drugs”, “If your answer yes, what is your plan to get your friend

to stop being addicted?”, “If we organize awareness campaigns about addiction in Egyptian

universities, would you prefer to be part of us?”.

Table 1

Summary of the first 3 questions

Gender Age University student?

Male : 31 18 to 24 Yes

Female : 11

As mentioned before in the previous questionnaire that we are focusing on the Egyptian students

that are between the age 18 to 24 that have some knowledge about drugs (see table 1).

4.2 Participants’ Gender

Figure 1

Gender of participants

The first question was a demographic question which talked about the participant’s gender which

the results shows that 74% was males and 26% was females (See figure 1)

4.3 Participants’ Age

Figure 2

Age of participants
The second question asked about the participant’s age which the results shows that 96% aged

from 18-24, 2% aged from 25-34 and 2% aged under 18 (See figure 2).

4.4 Participants educational level

Figure 3

educational level of Participants

The third question asked about the Participants educational level which the results shows that

95% answered yes and 5% answered no 18 (See figure 3).

4.5 Participants’ universities

Figure 4

Universities of Participants

The fourth question asked about the participant’s university which the results shows that 95%

answered yes and 5% answered no 18 (See figure 3).

4.6 Participants’ Answer

Figure 5

The Fifth question asked

about what student knows about drugs which the result shows that we got 41 respond.

4.6 Participants’ drug abuse

Figure 6

The six question

asked about the drug abuse which the results shows that 95% answered yes and 5% answered no.

4.7 Participants’ drug users

Figure 7

The seventh question asked about the drugs users which the results shows that 43% answered yes

and 38% answered no and 19% answered maybe

4.8 Participants’

Figure 8

The eighth question asked about how to stop

your friend from being addicted and the average was saying that we should advise them and tell

them about its long term effects.

4.9 Participants’ Addicted symptoms

Figure 9

The Ninth question asked about what Addicted symptoms which the result shows that we got 41

respond shows that people feels that addicted people are confused, and some people see them as

they are have different behavior.

5.0 Participants’ causing addition

Figure 10

The Tenth question asked about factors

causing addiction which the result shows

that we got 99 respond. (24 psychological, 9 study, 23 friend, 25 family and 18 occupational)

5.1 Participants’ first try

Figure 11

The eleventh question

asked about get addicted if you try once which the result shows that we got 14 respond yes and
28 respond with no.
5.2 Participants’

Figure 12

The twelfth question asked about participant’s

opinion in how can we face the problem of
addiction, And the results was

 Stop selling them

 By giving people work or something to
do instead of smoking drugs
 Give them advice
 Educating

5.3 Participants’ awareness

Figure 13

The thirteenth question asked about organize awareness which the result shows that we got 23
respond yes and 9 respond with no.
 Discussion

The primary purpose of our study was to explore the effect of addiction on university
students and to know more about people minds and how they think it can affect people. We have
got similar findings from the previous research, where there was a lot of people agree that drugs
are harmful so they gave us suggestions to make drug addicts stop it. In this section, we will be
presenting the information we collected through our survey, begin to analyze it, and explain each
point in detail, and then show the results.

5.3 Audiences Viewing Patterns

Our research results prove that there are effects of drug addiction on university students,
the results showed that males and females are agree with us that there are negative effects on
drug addicts which we should stop them from doing this. There is only 5% of participants
doesn’t agree that drug abuse affects academic performance.

Results also demonstrated that there are factors causing addiction as 24 of the participants
voted for psychological problems, 9 of the participants voted for study problems, and 23 of the
participants voted for that friends are the cause for addiction.

5.4 Perceived Positive Impacts

If we organize awareness campaigns about addiction in Egyptian universities, would you

prefer to be part of us? The results of this questionnaire showed that a lot of the participants
would join us for our awareness campaigns.

5.5 Impacts of drugs abuse on Behavior

 The results showed that the factors that causing addiction which will affect the behavior is
psychological problems, and study problems.