대학생의 신체활동, 흡연, 음주가 우울감에 미치는 영향

Abstract

Objectives This study aims to identify the effects of physical activity, smoking, and drinking on depression in university students.
 Methods This study was conducted with a total of 7,564 college students using data from the ‘2019 Community Health Survey’. As for the general characteristics of the subjects, 3,997 men (52.8%) and 3,567 women (62.5%) participated. The most common age was 19-22 years old with 5,405 (71.5%). The average age was 21.48 years (±21.00). The collected data were statistically processed using SPSS Windows 20.0 Program.
 Results There were significant differences between male and female in the experience of depression, strong exercise, moderate exercise, walking exercise, flexibility exercise, average daily smoking and alcohol consumption (p<.001). As a result of logistic regression analysis, average daily smoking amount (OR=0.96, 95% CI=0.94-0.99) and drinking amount (OR=2.58, 95% CI=1.03-6.45) were significant influencing factors for depressive experiences in male university students. Factors that had a significant effect on depressive experiences in female university students were strong exercise (OR=3.93, 95% CI=1.41-10.98, walking exercise (OR=0.35, 95% CI=0.17-0.71), and average daily smoking amount (OR=0.88, 95% CI=0.82-0.93) was found to be a significant influencing factor on the experience of depression.
 Conclusions Depression of university students is on the rise due to the decrease in activity levels and restrictions on interpersonal relationships because of COVID-19. It is necessary to motivate university students to relieve depression through desirable health promotion activities, and to devise desirable countermeasures for depression.