Study of descriptive exploratory nature with quantitative approach, evaluated the predisposition for the use and abuse of the alcohol in the Graduation in Nursing/UFRN. The sample was composed by 42 students regularly enrolled, being 76% of the feminine gender. The CAGE questionnaire was used added of items on the syndrome of the alcoholic abstinence. Half (50%) makes use of alcohol, with age among 21 to 22 years (41%). The largest consumption is in the fifth period (38%), following by the third period (19%) among researched them, 34% felt bad physically after having drunk, 33% trip, sway and braid the legs, and33% felt hot and sweat. In what refers to the mental and emotional symptoms, 50% referred slowness of the reasoning, 25% strange and frightening sensations when they drink, and 25% loss of the memory. It was ended that there is predisposition for the use and abuse of the alcohol and a tendency to the feminine alcoholism.
Alcoholism; Alcohol-Induced Disorders; Nursing; Students of Nursing; Nursing Evaluation Research
