This study focused on stress level, drinking behavior, and drinking-related problems by examining the influence of the stress level of Incheon community-dwelling citizens on drinking behavior and drinking-related problems.
The thousands of subjects w...
This study focused on stress level, drinking behavior, and drinking-related problems by examining the influence of the stress level of Incheon community-dwelling citizens on drinking behavior and drinking-related problems.
The thousands of subjects were selected proportionally according to population by area, gender, and age over 19. They were interviewed individually by assistant researchers who directly visited them in their houses; prior to the interview, their consent to participate was solicited. The data were collected from November 16, 2007 to December 15, 2007. Stress was measured using the Psychosocial Well-being Index Short Form (PWI-SF) by Jang, drinking behavior using frequencies and percentages of drinking, and drinking-related problems using the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) and the Korean Version of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (K-CIDI) of the World Health Organization (WHO). With regard to statistical analysis, descriptive statistics, chi-square test, and multi regression analysis were employed using SPSS 12.0 program.
The results of this study were as follows:
1) Of the subjects, 49.9% were male, and the average age of the respondents was 42 years. In terms of average monthly income, 36.5% earned less than 3-4 million won, 23.8% earned more than 4 million won, 21.5% earned less than 2.5 million won, and 18.3% earned less than 2.5-3 million won. In terms of marital status, 76.7% were married (first marriage), 20.3% were single, 2.0% were widowers and widows, 1.5% were divorced, and 0.5% were separated. In terms of religion, majority had no religion at 48.60%, 28.20% were Christians, 14.10% were Buddhists, and 9.10% were Catholics. In terms of occupation, majority had regular jobs at 68.1%, 20.0% were housewives, 6.5% had part-time jobs, 2.9% had daily jobs, and less than 2.6% were jobless. In terms of educational level, 66.1% were high school graduates, and less than 34.0% were college undergraduates.
2) The results of the analysis of stress level's influence on drinking behavior and drinking-related problems were as follows:
It was found that stress level does not have a significant influence on lifetime drinking rate, annual drinking rate, and alcohol abuse. On the other hand, stress level has a significant influence on monthly drinking frequency, consumption of alcohol, high-risk drinking frequency, age when one started drinking, level of drinking causing problems, alcohol dependency, and alcohol use disorder.
The effects of stress level on drinking behavior and drinking-related problems were significant on the age when one started drinking, the age when one started drinking regularly, drinking frequency, consumption of alcohol, and high-risk drinking frequency according to gender.
In addition, it was found that there was a difference in the age when one started drinking, age when one started drinking regularly, drinking frequency, and consumption of alcohol according to gender.
It was also found that according to occupation, there was a difference in the age when one started drinking, age when one started drinking regularly, drinking frequency, and high-risk drinking frequency, and according to income, there was a difference in the age when one started drinking, the age when one started drinking regularly, and drinking frequency.
Based on the above results, nursing intervention in terms of stress coping skills needs to be developedinstead of intervention focusing on drinking behaviors in the community. Moreover, programs that educate on and thus prevent alcohol use disorder need to be conducted among community residents.
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