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KMID : 0915820110120020155
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Journal of Korean Alcohol Science
2011 Volume.12 No. 2 p.155 ~ p.162
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Drinking Behavior and Factors that Affect Problem Drinking among Korean Female High-School Students
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Sohn Ae-Ree
Ko Seung-Duk
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Abstract
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Objective: Problem drinking among female students has concerned in Korean society. This study is to identify drinking behaviors and to examine the factors affect problem drinking among Korean female high school students.
Methods: The 2009 Korean Youth Health Risk Behavior Survey, a nationwide dataset collected by the Korean Center for Disease Control, was used for analyses. The data contained a total of 17,978 female students.
Results: The rate of alcohol drinking experience and current alcohol drinkers were 68.2% and 37.5%, respectively. The prevalence of early drinking onset (before age 13) was 14.2% and the problem drinking (defined as 2 or more points in the CRAFFT) among current drinkers was 29.2%. The factors that affected problem drinking were self-reported academic performance, living status, drinking before the age of 13, and drinking amounts. Female high school students who had began drinking before the age of 13 (odds ratio=1.51) and drunken soju 5 glasses or more (odds ration 3.39) had higher risk of having problem drinking. after controlling for the covariates such as age, grade, self-reported academic performance and living status.
Conclusion: The intervention for the prevention of problem drinking should be tailored and developed for environmental factors and early drinking onset
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KEYWORD
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alcohol, drinking behavior, problem drinking, youth, female
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