A Study on the Knowledge and Attitudes According to the Presence of Drinking Education for High School Students

Abstract

This study was executed to identify the presence of drinking education and associated drinking knowledge and attitudes of high school students in some areas. Sample data were collected from 211 high school students in D city from March 4 th to March 8 th in 2013. Structured self-administered questionnaires were used as survey tool. Study results showed drinking knowledge of some high school students was the highest score in that 'daily life is difficult when addicted to alcohol', and showed the lowest score in that 'alcohol does not affect the brain.' (p <0.05). According to the presence of education, results showed high score when the students received the drinking education that 'alcohol is prohibited to minors' (p <0.05). Regarding drinking education place, school showed the highest percentage of 92.4%, which is much higher than that of other institutions. Regarding education methods, lecture and video watching had the highest percentage of 47.5% and regarding educators, external lecturers had the highest percentage of 53.3. In order to examine the knowledge and attitudes according to the presence of drinking education, Logistic Regression Analysis was conducted and the results showed that the knowledge was estimated to improve 0.9 times and attitudes were estimated to improve 1.22 times. These results are considered to be utilized as fundamental data for re-emphasizing the necessity of youth drinking education and for drinking education program for those young people.