Abstract:
Objectives: The university students’ alcohol use behaviour and alcohol use self-efficacy data were collected among
Ghanaian university students. This survey had two main objectives: (a) to examine the factorial validity, structure, and
reliability of the 20-item alcohol abstinence self-efficacy scale among undergraduate students and (b) to examine the
role of alcohol abstinence self-efficacy in the pros and cons of alcohol use. These two objectives have been published
as separate research articles without the data (including data management) that were used for analyses. As the data
are not already available as part of these published papers, this data note provides a composite and integrated data
grounded on these published research articles with detailed information on the instruments used to collect data,
raw data in statistical software, managed/coded data in statistical software, and generated correlation matrix used to
perform complex analysis.
Data description: The data includes information on two major dimensions: (a) alcohol abstinence self-efficacy—
negative affect, social interactions and positive states, physical pain/illness, and alcohol craving (thoughts about
using) and (b) decisional balance—measuring the benefits (pros) of alcohol use and the costs (cons) of alcohol use.
In addition, data were collected on socio-demographic characteristics of students including their age, sex, level/year
in school, stream of study, place of residence and religious affiliation. The data collected is more representative of
students in private universities.
