• Journal of Home Health Care Nursing
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.265-279
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• 2015

Purpose: Most research on risky drinking among adults in Korea has focused on problem drinking and high-risk drinking. This paper examines the nature of heavy episodic drinking_(HED) among adults and seeks to identify the risk factors for HED by analyzing differences by gender and age. Method: Participants were 3,886 adults aged 19-64 years from the database of the fifth Korean National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey (KNHANES-V, 2010). Data were analyzed by conducting the Rao_Scott chi-square test, an ANCOVA, and logistic analysis with SAS 9.2. Results: Individuals between 19 and 29 years of age had the highest HED among all age groups. Individuals between 40 and 49 (male adults) and those between 30 and 39 (female adults) showed HED associated with stress, suicidal ideation, smoking, and other health behavior-related variables. Risk factors that affected HED in male adults were age, educational status, and current smoking, while for female adults, the factors were age, educational status, employment, marital status, and current smoking. Conclusions: It is necessary to develop appropriate intervention programs that abate negative emotions and lessen the risk of HED in adults with consideration to gender and age differences.

• Journal of the Korean Dietetic Association
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.1-17
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• 2011

The purpose of this study is to assess dietary habits of the hazardous drinkers and the heavy episodic drinkers in Korean adults. The respondents consisted of 814 adults (415 male and 399 female) who are 20~69 years of age by random selection in partial area of Gyeonggi. A self-report questionnaire was used to cover questions regarding dietary habits, drinking behavior and physical activity. Total dietary habit scores in hazardous drinker group (63.25) was significantly lower than normal drinker group (68.61) in male respondents (P<0.001). Male hazardous drinker group less eat fruit (P<0.01), eat more processed food (P<0.01) than male normal drinker group. Female hazardous drinker group doesn't eat 3 meals a day than female normal drinker group. Total dietary habit scores in heavy episodic drinker group [occasional heavy episodic drinker (62.76), frequent heavy episodic drinker (63.77)] were significantly lower than abstainer group (69.16) in male respondents (P<0.001). Male heavy episodic drinker group less eat fruit (P<0.01), eats more processed food (P<0.01), salty food (P<0.001), sugary food (P<0.05), animal fat (P<0.01) and eats out often (P<0.01) than male abstainer group. Male heavy episodic drinker group significantly less apply nutrition knowledge to their life (P<0.05) and less exercise everyday-more than 1 hour (P<0.01) than male abstainer group. In drinking behavior index, AUDIT (alcohol use disorder identification test) score was negatively correlated with age (P<0.01). There was a positive correlation between dietary habits and physical activity (P<0.01) but there was negative correlation between dietary habits and AUDIT score (P<0.01). This study highlights that AUDIT score was negatively influenced dietary habits.

• The Journal of Korean Society for School & Community Health Education
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.29-41
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• 2011

배경 및 목적 : 미국과한국양국의대학생의음주문제는심각한사회문제이며, 대학생의음주문제를예방하기 위한 다양한 노력들이 시도되고 있다. 본 연구는 미국과 한국대학생들의 음주와 폭음에 대한 인식 및 태도에 차이가 있는지를 비교 분석하기 위해 설계되었다. 방법 : 데이터는 2001년 미국의 하버드 보건대학원의 College Alcohol Study (CAS) 팀에서 미국의 120개 4년제 대학에서 10,904명에게서 조사한 원자료와 한국에서는2003년 삼육대학교 보건복지대학원의 Korean College Alcohol Study (KCAS) 팀에서 전국의 60개 4년제 대학의 2,385명의 원자료를 함께 통합하여 사용하였다. 이 자료의 특징은CAS에서 개발한설문지를 한국과 미 국양측에서 공동으로 사용하여 양 국가를 대표한 4년제 대학생의 표본을 대상으로 음주와 관련된 조사를 수행한 점이다. 결과 : 한국남학생들이 폭음할 기회가7.74배더많고 여학생의 경우는3.36배 더많다. 지난 한달동안 3회 이상 술 취한 경험율에서 한국 남학생들의 경험율이 34.3%로 미국의 20.4%보다 많고, 여학생의 경우도 24.6%로 미국 여학생의 11.1%보다 현저히 더 많다. 한국 대학생들의 폭음자 비율이 미국 대학생들의 폭음자 비율보다 많은 것과같이, 한국 대학생들이 미국의 대학생들 보다 폭음이 안전한 것으로 인식하고 있으며, 음주에있어서도더욱허용적인태도를가지고있다. 한국남학생의78.4%와 여학생의67.3%가 폭음 이상의 량을 안전하다고 인식하고 있다(미국은 남학생은 50.3%, 여학생은 34.1%). 폭음에 해당하는 음주량(남자는5잔 이상, 여자는4잔 이상)을안전하다고인식하는정도에서한국의대학생들이미국의대학생들에 비해서 남학생은 4.06배, 여학생이 3,96배 더 높다. 결론 : 한국 학생들 중에서도 음주의 량이 더 많은 학생들이 다른 학생들보다 음주와 술 취함과 폭음에 관하여 더욱 허용적이고, 안전한 음주에 대해 더욱 둔감한 태도와 신념을 보이고 있다.

• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• v.49 no.10
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• pp.1042-1049
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• 2006

Purpose : This study was conducted to survey the preliminary data on risk behaviors and to identify the factors that prevent risk-behaviors in late adolescence. Methods : Freshmen(n=1,297) beginning the first semester in Korea University, Seoul, Korea completed self-administered risk behavior questionnaires, comprising 5 domains : demographics, smoking, drinking, drug abuse and sexual behavior. Results : The rate of smoking experience was higher in people having friends who smoke and the predictors of transition to current smoking were male gender, urban residence, friends' smoking, and nicotine dependence. The rate of high risk drinking was higher among students who are male and who had experience of heavy episodic drinking. The study group showed a low prevalence of narcotic users, but two-thirds of students could get medicine easily without prescriptions. The prevalence of sexual experience was 6.5 percent, and the sexual education was not a predictor of contraceptive behavior. The prevalence of homosexuality was 1.6 percent, and the rate of mostly heterosexuality was higher in female students. Conclusion : The main targets of youth health education should be campaigns aimed at atcessation of reinforcing risk behaviors and the development of a surveillance system for the prevention of chronic disease. These results can be used to find risk factors of health-risk behaviors among late adolescents.