Abstract

This study was conducted to understand the effects of demographic and sociological factors, drinking factors, and mental health factors of adolescents with heavy drinking experience, and to suggest the direction of education and policy for alcohol prevention. As a research method, raw data from the 2021 Youth Risk Behavior Survey were used, and in this study, 5,803 people who responded to questions asking if they had drunk in the past 30 days were used for the final analysis. SPSS Win 25.0 was used for data analysis, frequency analysis to understand the subject's drunken experience, and logistic regression analysis to understand the effect of the subject's demographic and sociological factors, drinking factors, and mental health factors on the drunk experience.
 As a result of the study, academic performance, subjective health status, and type of residence were found to be factors influencing heavy drinking experience in demographic and sociological factors, and drinking age (95%CI: 0.620~0.903, p<).001), Ease of purchase (95% CI: 0.737 to 1.512, p=.035) is depression(95% CI:1.375 to 2.090, p<.001), sense of isolation (95% CI:0.695 to 1.092, p=.003), Suicide attempt experience (95% CI:1.593-3.147, p<.001) was identified as a factor influencing the heavy drinking experience. Therefore, this study discussed various social policies on youth drinking problems and the need for early intervention to prevent youth drinking, and suggested the development and intervention of programs considering social interest and mental health in the drinking environment in the future.

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