Factors Influencing Alcohol Drinking Behaviors among Students Valaya Alonghorn Rajabhat University Under The Royal Patronage

Abstract

Introduction: Alcohol can cause health problems family accidents and crime the impact on society and the economy of the country. Objective: To study the behaviors of drinking alcohol beverage and the factors influencing the behaviors of drinking alcohol beverage of the among students Valaya Alonghorn Rajabhat University under the Royal Patronage. Methods: The samples of this study consisted of 354 students and they were selected by using stratified random sampling technique. Data were collected through self-administered questionnaires during the 28th March 2017 to the 10th April 2017. The data were then analyzed by using frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, Chi-square analysis, and Multiple Logistic Regression. Results: The results of the study showed that 44.4 percent of students at the present time had the behaviors of drinking alcohol beverage; whereas 55.6 percent of them at the present time did not have the behaviors of drinking alcohol beverage. Besides this, 60.1 percent of the students perceived the measures of alcohol control at a good level. The factors influencing the behaviors of drinking alcohol beverage of the students were statistically significant (p - value < 0.05), and the factors included the recognition of alcoholic beverage control by the students who perceived to have good control over alcoholic beverage not to drink alcohol at present at 2.9 times of the students who perceived to have bad control over alcoholic beverage. Conclusions: The results of the study suggested that the higher educational institutions hould set guidelines for the management of drinking alcohol beverage problems of students by initiating from the promotion of the recognition of the measures of alcoholic beverage control in a thorough and appropriate way.