Analysing the effects of alcohol consumption on student’s performance: a case study of Makerere University

Abstract

Majority of the students have failed to determine some of the factors that affect their performance. However, in this study alcohol consumption is one of the factors that is affecting student’s performance. The study was carried in the whole University with samples from each college and the gender was also considered, the Religion of respondents was determined where it was found that majority of the students who take alcohol are Catholics since there is no rule that restricts alcohol consumption. There are factors that attract students to consume alcohol and these include age which was significant with alcohol consumption at 5% confidence level , there is also peer from friends which was significant at 5% confidence level. In addition, Religion was also significant. This shows that alcohol consumption is attracted by number of factors . The study indicated that alcohol consumption was significant with academic performance where chi-square test was used and showed significant at 5% confidence level. This confirmed that alcohol consumption affects the performance of students and majority of students that used to consume alcohol were having lower CGPA of between 2-2.9