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Objectives: This study was conducted to analyze the relationship between urban environment, high-risk drinking, and moderate drinking attempts within the living radius by one district in Seoul, South Korea. We aimed to provide fundamental data for preventing high-risk drinking among city residents and establishing an environment promoting moderate drinking. Methods: Physical environmental factors that affect high-risk drinking and sobriety were analyzed using data from the Community Health Survey and administrative data from 2012 to 2016 with one district located in the southeastern part of Seoul as the subject of the study. After adjusting for personal characteristics such as gender, age, income, and stress, a spatial logistic regression analysis was performed on the physical environment affecting drinking within a 1km radius of living. Results: The probability of not having high-risk drinking increased as the distance between chicken restaurants, pubs, and convenience stores within 1km of the living radius increased. For men, the probability of high-risk drinking was lower as the distance from the chicken restaurants, pubs, or convenience stores increased, and no relationship was found with density. For women, the density of chicken restaurants and convenience stores was related to high-risk drinking. In the case of moderate drinking attempts by high-risk drinkers, the probability of moderate drinking attempts increased as the distance from the chicken restaurants increased, and the probability of moderate drinking attempts decreased as the density of convenience stores increased and the distance from the public health center increased. Conclusions: To promote public health, continuous efforts are required to prevent high-risk drinking and establish a urban environment that encourages moderate drinking. This involves collaborating with community resources, improving citizen awareness, and creating a health-friendly environment.

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to identify Influencing Factors of Risky Drinking among Current Drinking High School Girls in Korea. Methods: This study used the raw data of the 17th Adolescent Health Behavior Survey (2022) and selected 1599 high school girls who are currently drinking. Results: A result of the study, the risk drinking influencing factors of current drinking female high school students in Korea were school type, type of residence, first start of drinking, drunk experience (month), ease of purchase of alcoholic beverages, and presence of depression. In particular, ease of purchase of alcohol is a very important factor as it was shown to increase risky drinking by 4.763 times (Exp(β)=0.568, p<.001). Conclusions: It is hoped that the results of this study will be used as a reference for the composition of the risk drinking intervention program for high school girls who are currently drinking, and the results of future intervention studies are expected.

Objectives : Alcohol’s harm to others harms not only individual drinkers but also third parties and causes many socioeconomic costs. Although several previous studies have identified factors related to the occurrence of alcohol’s harm to others, the characteristics of alcohol‘s harm to others are largely unknown. For a more effective policy, it is important to understand the current status of alcohol’s harm to others. Therefore, this study aimed to understand the current status and types of alcohol’s harm to others by place of alcohol-regulated places using newspaper articles. Methods : Articles from August 16, 2021 to August 16, 2022 were searched through a news search analysis site called ‘Bigkinds’. Search keywords were ‘drinking’ or ‘drunken’ or ‘alcohol-regulated places’ in combination with the words related to alcohol-regulated places. The year, the place, and the type of even of alcohol’s harm to others were extracted from the articles. Frequency analyses and a chi-squared test were used. Results : From the initial search, 5,182 articles were found, of which 222 articles were included in the anlaysis excluding duplicate articles and articles containing political content. Forty eight percent of the events of alcohol’s harm to others occurred in the metropolitan area. The events of alcohol’s harm to others occurred more frequently in non-regulated places than in regulated places (68.5% vs 31.5%). Violence (36.9%), drunken driving (28.0%), and disturbance (13.7%) are the most frequent types of harm. The types of harm were statistically different between the regulated and non-regulated places. Conclusions : The study results have shown that alcohol’s harm to others occurs more frenquently in non-regulated places than in regulated places. We also found that felonies such as murder and robbery as well as misdemeanors inlcuding violence, disturbance occur in alcohol-regulated places. These results suggest that alcohol regulations need to be strengthened in alcohol-regulated places and alcohol-regulated places need to be expanded to some of the non-regulated places.

Objective: It is known that mutual support, guidance from experts and colleagues, and the use of new technologies are effective in group counseling intervention to promote physical activity. But it has never been studied in Korea, group counseling effect was examined by applying daily exercise skill to adults who work and study at the same semester. Methods : Postgraduate students were diveded into intervention and control group. For data analysis, frequency analysis, Mann-Whitney U test, Wilcoxon Signed-Rank test, and Fisher’s exact test were conducted, and behavioral changes and psychological antecedents were identified by applying repetitive comparative analysis. Results: Commitment score became significantly higher after intervention in intervention group. No other significant changes were observed in Decisional Balance and Self efficacy after intervention. Conclusion: Group counseling intervention to promote physical activity showed only small increase of Commitment in post-graduate students. Further mixed research methods on changes in physical activity motivational preparation may helpful to know more detail information.

Purpose: This study identified cases of overseas interventions conducted to improve walking practice to explore walking interventions that can be applied to improve walking practice rates in Korean communities. Method: A total of 11 documents were selected according to database search and literature selection criteria and finally analyzed. We searched PubMed, Google, and Google Scholar for literature published after 2000 using a combination of search terms (walk, walking, community, community-based population) Result: There were eight population-level studies and three individual-level studies covering the entire community, and the subjects were residents with physically inactive adults, the elderly, and socioeconomically vulnerable groups in the community. There were three randomised trials, four long-term cohort studies longer than one year, three cohort studies less than one year, and one mixed study. In addition, intervention types included two studies that provided economic incentives, two studies used community participatory interventions, three studies provided campaigns and information, three studies provided education and consultation, and six studies created an environment and infrastructure. The most studies created the environment and infrastructure. Conclusion: In order to achieve the 2030 target of walking practice rate 50.0% in South Korea, it is necessary to consider various topics such as building good governance through community participation, whole-of-government approaches, and changes in the social and environmental conditions of local communities, along with policy-enabling factors that can create an active systems centered on a systems-based approach that combines interventions at the individual and national levels.