Prevalence and factors affecting alcohol drinking among undergraduate students at a university, Phitsanulok Province
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Alcohol drinking, Prevalence, Undergraduate studentsAbstract
This analytical cross-sectional research aimed to determine prevalence and factors affecting alcohol drinking among undergraduate students at a university, Phitsanulok Province. The subjects were 205 undergraduate students, which were selected using the stratified random sampling technique. Research tool employed for data collection was a questionnaire. It consisted of 6 parts including personal information, knowledge about alcohol drinking, attitude about alcohol drinking, alcohol drinking behavior of friends, accessing to trading sources of alcoholic beverages, and alcohol drinking. Reliability for knowledge tested by KR-20 was 0.74. Reliability of questionnaire for attitude, alcohol drinking behavior of friends, and accessing to trading sources of alcoholic beverages were 0.86, 0.87, and 0.91, respectively. The statistics used for data analysis involved frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and binary logistic regression. Significant level was considered at 0.05.
Results revealed that 53.2% of the samples had a high level of knowledge about alcohol drinking and 59.0% had a low level of attitude toward alcohol drinking. Approximately 54% of friends showed alcohol consumption behavior at moderate level and 58% of the samples accessed to trading sources of alcoholic beverages at moderate level. Prevalence of alcohol drinking was observed at 64.9%. Factors affecting alcohol drinking were male (Adj OR = 3.87, 95%CI = 1.36-11.00), marital status of parents as married (Adj OR = 2.53, 95%CI = 1.11-5.76), alcohol drinking behavior of friends at low level (Adj OR = 6.35, 95%CI = 1.53-26.39), accessing to trading sources of alcoholic beverages in moderate and easy levels (Adj OR = 9.35, 95%CI = 2.53 24.48, Adj OR = 2.63, 95%CI = 1.13-9.09, respectively). Therefore, educational institute should provide a program for changing behavior to reduce alcohol drinking. Moreover, students should be motivated to increase life-skill to be aware of the disadvantage of accessing to trading sources of alcoholic beverages.
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