To investigate the effect of alcohol drinking on the absence pattern, we conducted survey for 606 male workers who employed at the small & medium sized manufacturing factories located in Taejon city and Chungnam region. The following results were
obtained.
Among the variables, age marrital status, body mass index, smoking, working hours per day, and working climate showed significant realtionship with the alcohol drinking times. Gross absence days and sickness absence days showed significant
relation
with
alcohol drinking frequency, but non-sickness absence days did not showed any relation with alcohol drinking frequency. After adjusting the variables which had significant relation with absence days and alcohol drinking, there were still
significant
relation between absence days and alcohol drinking frequency.
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