Fahad A. Al amri(1),Samar A.Am
Abstract
Caffeine is a psychoactive, mildnaturally stimulant and the most commonly regularly ingested by people worldwide .The growing market and use of caffeinated drinks (CDs) has caused concern about excessive caffeine intake and potential adverse effects especially among health care providers in Kingdom Saudi Arabia (KSA). So this study aims to study and promote CDs consumption.Through the following objectivesamong governmental health care providers (HCPs) in the KSA, 2019; to determine the prevalence and sources of caffeine consumption, to study the context caffeine consumption ( locations and reasons) and its determinants and to determine theeffect of caffeine consumptionusing DSM (DSM-IV).Methodology: analytical cross section study conducted on 600 randomly selected governmental HCPs from all over 20 healthy region in KSA,who fulfil the selection criteria through self-administrated on line pretested and precodedquestionnaire composed from four main parts .After king Fahad City IRP approval, and written informed consent the collected data were analyzed by SPSS program version 21, using suitable teste.