Factual investigation regarding alcohol drinking of male first-year students at U technical college

U高専1年男子の飲酒に関する実態調査

Factual investigation regarding alcohol drinking of male first-year students at U technical college

Creators Ishio Jun

Creators Fujiiwa Hideki

Creators Ito Kosaku

Creators Kota Mitsuhiro

Creators Nakamura Koji

The purpose of the present investigation was to clarify the actual status of alcohol drinking of male first-year students at U technical college. Subjects were a total of 434 male first-year students at U technical college. The investigation covered a six year period, from 2004 to 2009, with questionnaire-based written surveys undertaken during health and physical education classes. The results were that approximately 80 percent of surveyed subjects were persons with past experience of alcohol drinking. It was learned that a majority of persons with alcohol-drinking experience were persons who drank small amounts of alcohol several times a year, and that there were few regular alcohol drinkers. Also, over the six year period, there were 23 cases of persons who had experienced “chugging down alcoholic drinks (ikki-nomi),” said to be a risk factor for acute alcohol poisoning. From the results of the present investigation, it is thought that the following are necessary: from an early stage, not to enable alcohol-drinking experiences with peers who will cause an increase in annual alcohol-drinking frequency, and to foster a deep-rooted awareness of the dangers of “rapidly chugging down alcoholic drinks (ikki-nomi).”

[ISSN]0386-4359