Caffeine consumption among the medical students at the University of Jordan

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objective: This study aims to assess the prevalence of caffeine containing beverages consumption (tea, coffee, soft drinks, energy drinks) and the weekly caffeine intake among medical students at the University of Jordan.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted, in the faculty of medicine at the University of Jordan from 3rd to 14th December 2017, to assess the prevalence of consumption of beverages containing caffeine among the medical students at all academic levels.

Online groups for each academic year were employed to reach out to the students and provide them with the online questionnaire, which included demographic details, information regarding different types of caffeinated products, and the frequency of their consumption.

Data obtained from the participants were coded automatically on Microsoft Excel.

Then, SPSS was used for data analyses.

Results: A total of 385 medical students participated in this study, 223 (57.9%) were females and 162 (42.1%) were males.

Results showed that the prevalence of consuming at least one type of caffeinated beverages was (98.4 %).

Conclusion: Tea was the most consumed beverage while energy drinks were the least consumed.

Most medical students (79.7%) were considered to be in the ‘minimum low’ range of consumption, which is ≤1909 mg per week.