• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.13 no.9
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• pp.4090-4097
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was performed to evaluate the effect of the cut down drinking circle activity on knowledge, perception of drinking cultures and drinking problem to the university students. Study period was from April to November. The participants of this study included 95 university students, located in the adjoining region of K city. While one of the group, composed of 47 students was designated as an experimental group, and the other group, composed of 48 students, was compared as a control group. Data analysis was done using ${\chi}^2$-test, t-test, they were processed SPSS 17.0. For homogeneous, general character, knowledge of drinking, perception of drinking cultures, drinking problem were measured pretest. The result were homogeneous group. The findings in this research were as follows. Knowledge of cut down drinking circle activity was significant difference between the two groups. On the other hand, the effect on perception of drinking cultures and drinking problem were not significantly different. These findings in the study give us the necessity of the cut down drinking circle activity for university students. It is also meaningful for this program to apply university students to various programs of alcohol-related problems.