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 Volume 8, Issue 3 (March 2021), Pages: 36-39

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 Original Research Paper

 Title: Assessment of the levels of caffeine consumption among Saudi Arabian university students

 Author(s): Sami Abdulrahman Alhamidi 1, Seham Mansour Alyousef 2, *

 Affiliation(s):

 1Department of Maternal and Child Health, College of Nursing, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
 2Community and Psychiatric Department, College of Nursing, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0435-1353

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2021.03.005

 Abstract:

This study aimed to assess the caffeine consumption of Saudi Arabian undergraduate students and to determine if the average amount consumed is within healthful parameters. Caffeine consumption in Saudi Arabia is a major cultural and social feature. Consumption of excessive amounts of caffeine can be deleterious to the health of university students. This is a cross-sectional study. A total of 145 male undergraduate nursing students were surveyed using the Caffeine Consumption Questionnaire to assess their caffeine intake on a typical day. Among this group, 34.5% of students exceeded the 400mg daily safe levels for caffeine consumption. The average consumption of the total group, those consuming below 400mg and those exceeding 400mg were 325.1, 201.2, and 570.1 mg, respectively. Tea and coffee were the major contributors to total caffeine intake ranging from 0-8 (240ml) servings per day. Health promotion aimed at illuminating health risks of caffeine consumption exceeding safe limits may assist in modification of intake to more healthful levels. 

 © 2020 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Caffeine, Addiction, Health safety, Population, Social stress factors

 Article History: Received 20 August 2020, Received in revised form 28 October 2020, Accepted 10 November 2020

 Acknowledgment:

The authors cordially express their sincere appreciation for the support provided by the Deanship of Scientific Research through the Research Center of the College of Nursing at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

 Compliance with ethical standards

 Ethical consideration: Ethical approval was obtained from the Institutional Review Board at King Saud University with Reference Number: E 18-2823.

 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

  Alhamidi SA and Alyousef SM (2021). Assessment of the levels of caffeine consumption among Saudi Arabian university students. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 8(3): 36-39

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