[Prevalence of occupational accidents and related factors in students of dentistry].

Objective: Describe the prevalence of occupational accidents students of dentistry and associate it with factors of their clinical practice.

Methods: Cross-sectional study, developed in a public university in the city of Cartagena in 2010. Participants included 213 students in l pre-clinics and clinics practice of dentistry, selected by simple random sampling.

[Public university students' psychosocial factors associated with legal and illegal substance consumption].

Objective: Determining the prevalence and psychosocial factors associated with public university students' legal and illegal substance consumption.

Method: This was across-sectional study of 1,359 randomly selected students. The harvesting instrument included the CAGE questionnaire and VESPA,WHO, Rosenberg, Francis and APGAR scales.

[Pathological alcohol consumption amongst students from the University of Cartagena, 2008].

Objective: Determining the frequency of pathological alcohol consumption and characterising the variables related to such consumption in students taking daytime programmes at the University of Cartagena.

Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional design was used; 1,031 students from daytime programmes at the University of Cartagena participated in it (480 males and 551 females). They were selected by randomly sampling responses to a questionnaire which included the alcohol use disorders identification test (AUDIT).