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KMID : 0915820080090020103
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Journal of Korean Alcohol Science
2008 Volume.9 No. 2 p.103 ~ p.111
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The Effects of Alcohol Control Policy on Alcohol-Related Knowledge, Attitudes and Behavior among Middle School Students
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Abstract
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This study is designed to survey the influence of school alcohol control policy that the middle school spread by alcohol prevention education through various opportunities, and it was affected by the knowledge, attitude and behavior of the adolescents drinking.For this objective, it utilized the data for surveying adolescent recognition of drinking, collected by the Government Youth Commission from 6,232 male and female adolescents attending middle schools located throughout the country of Korea (2 schools each in Seoul, InCheon, BuSan, DaeGu, GwangJu, and GyeongGi, Chungbuk, ChungNam, JeonNam, KyoungBuk, KyoungNam provinces) from September 25 to October 5, 2007.As research tools, drinking knowledge scales were composed of 22 questions based on the KAP (Knowledge·Attitude·Practice) model; drinking attitude and impulse scales were also composed of 10 questions based on the KAP model.One group was educated by a drinking prevention program to individual students and teaching staff in middle school. A second group was educated by a drinking prevention program which extended to the students’ parents and the surrounding middle school. The third control group was not educated by any drinking prevent program either to the student, teaching staff or the student’s parents directly. In the alcohol policy, where they have more opportunity to participate in a drinking prevention program, the drinking knowledge score is high. The alcohol policy utilized for this study is effective in helping the middle school students improve in drinking knowledge, change virtually perception, attitude and behavior of drinking. It affects drinking knowledge, perception, attitude and behavior of drinking in the student in lower grades who participated in the drinking prevention program. Also, it shows that they should try to continuously improve prevention education ability. Further, it is also necessary to develop drinking prevention education appropriate for adolescents and programs in which both parents and those of the same age, who can participate through mutual cooperation and gain the support of the juvenile culture at their social level.
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KEYWORD
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middle school students, alcohol drinking behavior, knowledge, attitudes
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