Attitude toward and use of ecstasy in medical university interns' based on HBM

Using a self-reported questionnaire, 130 Yazd Medical University students were surveyed about their knowledge toward ecstasy and their use of ecstasy based on Health Belief Model.

The age range was 18–31 years. About 23% of students had seen the tablet of ecstasy and 6(4.6%) of them had used ecstasy(2 female and 4 male) and 4 of them lived in dormitory and 2  tenant.  The knowledge, perceived barrier and perceived benefit of students, who had used the ecstasy was lower than others, who did not use the ecstasy. There was significant difference between the knowledge, perceived barrier and perceived benefit of samples and using the ecstasy (p<0.008, p<0.003 and p<0.13 respectively) . Approximately 74% of the students wanted to know more about ecstasy and it's effects. Finally, the students were asked to select one or more item from a list of six which they considered the best way of providing young people with accurate information, and the responses (as percentages) for each source were as follow: discussion with parents: 1.5%; television programmes: 64.6%; radio programmes: 1.5%; talk at university: 12.3%; friends: 12.3%; newspapers/magazine articles: 7.7%. The data revealed that the knowledge of participants, about ecstasy was low (mean=27.69 ±3.53 out of 48).The mean grade score of knowledge of male was more than female. A survey in Kerman showed that the knowledge of public medicine about ecstasy was lower than 50%and the knowledge of male was more than female.