Analysis Of Drinking Status And Association Between Negative Life Events In Hefei College Students

Objective To understand the epidemiological characteristics of drinking status among college students in Hefei, and to explore the influcing factors and the relationship between drinking status and negative life events.Methods By using stratified cluster sampling method, 3000 students in 8 colleges were recruited and asked to fill in the questionnaires anonymous. The main contents of the study include general demographic characteristics, drinking status, drinking situation investigation, alcohol dependence screening and negative life events. The unconditioned multivariate logistic regression was used to to screen influencing factors and Ordinal multivariate logistic regression was used to analyze the relationship between negative life events and drinking status.Results A total of 2777 valid questionnaires were collected. The rate of drinking was 79.7%, which was 91.9% in male and 68.0% in female respectively. The drinking rate of male students was higher than that of girls, and the difference was statistically significant. The unconditioned multivariate logistic regression showed that the college students who is girl(OR:0.226; 95%CI: 0.179-0.285), national minority(OR: 0.378; 95%CI: 0.207-0.689), no smoking(OR: 0.365; 95%CI: 0.202-0.659) and whose father don’t drink(OR:0.677; 95%CI: 0.566-0.808) tend to refuse drinking, and who hold the higher monthly living expenses(OR: 1.212; 95%CI: 1.054-1.393), slack school management(OR:1.371; 95%CI: 1.085-1.733), thinking drinking is a part of university life(OR: 1.852; 95%CI: 1.560-2.197), and compared with the freshman, sophomore students(OR: 1.396; 95%CI: 1.103-1.768) and Junior students(OR: 1.709; 95%CI: 1.280-2.283) tend to drinking. 2529(91.1%) were low risk drinking, 168(6.0%) were high risk drinking, 44(1.6%) were hazardous drinking, and 36(1.3%) were alcohol dependence. The average sore of negative life events was(37.32 ± 23.95). The highest score of the college students’ life events is interpersonal relationship(8.426 ± 4.949), followed by punishment factor(8.304 ± 4.092), academic pressure(8.101 ± 4.497), health adaptation(6.035 ± 3.726), the other(4.368 ± 3.965) and the loss(4.080 ± 4.092). The highest rate was academic pressure(95.2%), followed by health adaptation(93.4%), interpersonal relationship(92.7%), the other(79.3%), punishment factor(78.7%) and the loss(68.6%). The higher the students’ interpersonal relationship score, the lower tendency to alcohol dependence(OR=0.92, 95%CI=0.88-0.97), the higher punishment factor score(OR=1.06, 95%CI=1.02-1.10) and other negative life events score(OR=1.19, 95%CI=1.11-1.27) were tend to alcohol dependence.Conclusions Drinking behavior is common among college students in Hefei, and it is also affected by family environment, school environment, social environment and personal factors, and improprieties drinking behavior was exsist, college students generally encounter negative life events, it may be one of the important factors of excessive drinking. Colleges and universities should take corresponding measures to promote college students’ mental health, take intervention of college students’ improper drinking mental and behavior to reduce the improper consumption rate.