Objectives: This paper aims to identify the socio-demographic variables and drinking status variables that affect to the alcohol policy agreement, and to examine gaps of alcohol policy agreement and cognitive differences of alcohol policy effectiveness between the normal drinkers and the problem drinkers. Methods: Exposure data were taken from the 2009 Alcohol Policy Survey conducted by Korean Institute on Alcohol Problems. The samples were drawn from households and were selected randomly from eight provinces and seven large cities including Seoul. The total respondents were 569 comprising 286 men and 283 women 19 years and over. Results: The collection of data was conducted from October 1st to 15th, 2009. Participants were interviewed personally and the data was collected confidentially using the sealed envelope. Questionnaires were designed to assess agreement and cognitive effectiveness of the alcohol policies. The main findings may be summarized as follows: First, there are big cognitive gaps of alcohol policy agreement among the problem drinkers, normal drinkers, gender, age, and residents, drinkers, and problem drinkers. Second, we found big cognitive differences of alcohol policy effectiveness between the problem drinkers and normal drinkers. Normal drinkers are cognizing the alcohol policies more effective than problem drinkers. Third, the problem drinkers and normal drinkers agree to enforce the drinking driving policy and the on- and off- premise licence policy, and bar regulation policy are vert effective. Conclusion: In conclusion it is necessary to set up the National alcohol control policy to prevent harmful, hazardous drinking, and alcohol-related problems in Korea.
알코올과 건강행동학회 [Korean Society of Alcohol Science and Health Behavior]
설립연도
2000
분야
의약학>예방의학
소개
알코올에 대한 생리적, 임상적, 보건적, 사회적, 문화적 측면에서의 과학적 연구를 통해 학문적 발전을 이룩할뿐 아니라, 알코올로 인한 문제를 예방, 치료하며, 절주에 대한 교육, 홍보를 통해 건전한 음주 문화를 형성케하여 궁극적으로 국민의 건강을 증진시키고자 하는데 창립의 목적인 있음.
[중점적인 연구분야]
1. 알코올관련 식품학 등의 기초과학
2. 알코올 중독 예방, 치료, 재활관련 임상의학
3. 알코올 문제 예방, 치료, 재활, 관리, 정책관련 보건학
4. 음주문화 및 음주행태관련 사회과학
5. 생리, 독성 등 기타 알코올관련 학문분야
간행물
간행물명
알코올과 건강행동연구 [Alcohol and Health Behavior Research]