Abstract
Objectives This study aimed to analyze the drinking level and influencing factors according to the gender of adolescents from single-parent households.
 Methods A total of 764 adolescents were selected and analyzed using the 17th Korean Youth Risk Behavior Survey. The Rao-Scott chi-square test was conducted to examine the differences in demographic characteristics, drinking, and health risk behavior according to gender of single parent household adolescents, and the differences in demographic and health risk behavior according to drinking. and complex sample logistic regression was performed for factors affecting drinking according to gender.
 Results As a result of analyzing the data of 330 female students and 434 male students from single-parent households, 53.3% of female students and 52.3% of male students in single-parent households were drinking. The factor influencing drinking among female students from single-parent households was current smoking, which was 5.89 times more likely to drink than non-smoker female students. The factors influencing drinking among male students from single-parent families were subjective body type, current smoking, and sexual experience. Male students who considered themselves to be thin drank 0.75 times more than male students who considered themselves normal, smokers 4.92 times more than non-smokers, and students with sexual experience 2.41 times more than non-sexual experience.
 Conclusions Based on the results of this study, differentiated education program according to the gender of adolescents from single-parent households is needed, and continuous attention from home and school is needed so that adolescents from single-parent households can grow up healthy.
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