Forney P D, Forney M A, Ripley W K
Department of Family Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta 30912-5470.
J Fam Pract. 1988 Jul;27(1):65-70.
A study was conducted to determine what sociocultural and demographic variables can be used to identify potential problem drinkers among adolescents in middle school and high school. Three thousand seventeen students were administered an in-depth questionnaire regarding their knowledge, attitudes, and behavior toward the use of alcohol. Twenty schools in six school districts in the two-state area of Georgia and South Carolina participated in the study. A number of analyses indicated that the student heavy drinker was most typically male, white, and between the ages of 14 and 15 years with an above average knowledge about alcohol and liberal attitudes toward alcohol use. The adolescent heavy drinker is more likely to have parents and best friends who are heavy drinkers, to have had his first encounter with alcohol at an early age, to drink with friends his own age, and to feel that almost all of his friends drink. Results of this study can be used by family physicians in the management of potential alcohol abusers. Early recognition and intervention by the family physician may help to reduce the alarming number of adolescents who are struggling with problems related to alcohol.
开展了一项研究,以确定哪些社会文化和人口统计学变量可用于识别初中和高中青少年中的潜在问题饮酒者。对3017名学生进行了一份关于他们对酒精使用的知识、态度和行为的深入问卷。佐治亚州和南卡罗来纳州两州地区六个学区的20所学校参与了这项研究。多项分析表明,学生中的重度饮酒者通常为男性、白人,年龄在14至15岁之间,对酒精有高于平均水平的了解,对饮酒持开放态度。青少年重度饮酒者更有可能有父母和最好的朋友也是重度饮酒者,在早年首次接触酒精,与同龄人一起饮酒,并认为几乎所有朋友都饮酒。家庭医生可利用这项研究的结果来管理潜在的酒精滥用者。家庭医生的早期识别和干预可能有助于减少与酒精相关问题作斗争的青少年数量,这一数量令人担忧。