The influence of social and cultural factors on the risk behavior of adolescents in terms of drinking alcohol
Session
Medicine and Nursing
Description
Introduction. Most of the diseases among adolescents are as a result of risky behavior related to alcohol consumption habits. There are many reasons, motives, needs and situations in which children of school age (adolescents, teenagers) may start and later continue with risky behavior in the sense of early start of consuming alcohol to the point of intoxication.
The purpose of this research is to determine the impact of social and cultural factors on the risky behavior of adolescents regarding the aspect of drinking alcohol, which will contribute in designing preventive programs for health promotion to young people.
Material and methods. For the purposes of this research, a survey questionnaire was used from the Global Survey of Adolescent Health. It is a standard questionnaire of CZO and CDC that contains 24 questions coveribng cigarettes, alcohol consumption and drug use. The questionnaire was designed so as to correspond to the age and gender of the respondents. The statistical analysis of the data obtained from the research was done in the statistical program SPSS 17.0. Categorical (attributive) variables are shown with absolute and relative numbers. Numerical (quantitative) variables are shown with an average, minimum values, maximum values, and standard deviation. For comparing rates between children who consume and who do not consume alcohol Student's t-test was used. It was used to determine statistical significance level of p<0.05
Results and discussion. The research included 600 respondents, students from primary and secondary schools in the territory of the Pologi region. The structure of the respondents consisted of 264 (44%) male and 336 (56%) female students. The ethnic structure of the students consisted of 300 Macedonian and 300 Albanian students, 172 (28.67%) were students from the 9th grade, 203 (33.83%) from the 1st year of high school and 225 (37.5%) were students from the 2nd year of high school.
Conclusion. Obviously, the vendors do not consider it a problem as they sell alcohol uncritically to minors. In particular, only one in five of our respondents were turned away when buying alcohol where the seller referred to their youth. So, in our country, minors can buy alcohol without a problem, in violation of the legal regulation, which is obviously not known to the sellers.
Keywords:
students, drinking alcohol, gender, religion.
Proceedings Editor
Edmond Hajrizi
ISBN
978-9951-550-50-5
Location
UBT Kampus, Lipjan
Start Date
29-10-2022 12:00 AM
End Date
30-10-2022 12:00 AM
DOI
10.33107/ubt-ic.2022.156
Recommended Citation
Bilalli, Mirlinde and Bilalli, Emire, "The influence of social and cultural factors on the risk behavior of adolescents in terms of drinking alcohol" (2022). UBT International Conference. 157.
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The influence of social and cultural factors on the risk behavior of adolescents in terms of drinking alcohol
UBT Kampus, Lipjan
Introduction. Most of the diseases among adolescents are as a result of risky behavior related to alcohol consumption habits. There are many reasons, motives, needs and situations in which children of school age (adolescents, teenagers) may start and later continue with risky behavior in the sense of early start of consuming alcohol to the point of intoxication.
The purpose of this research is to determine the impact of social and cultural factors on the risky behavior of adolescents regarding the aspect of drinking alcohol, which will contribute in designing preventive programs for health promotion to young people.
Material and methods. For the purposes of this research, a survey questionnaire was used from the Global Survey of Adolescent Health. It is a standard questionnaire of CZO and CDC that contains 24 questions coveribng cigarettes, alcohol consumption and drug use. The questionnaire was designed so as to correspond to the age and gender of the respondents. The statistical analysis of the data obtained from the research was done in the statistical program SPSS 17.0. Categorical (attributive) variables are shown with absolute and relative numbers. Numerical (quantitative) variables are shown with an average, minimum values, maximum values, and standard deviation. For comparing rates between children who consume and who do not consume alcohol Student's t-test was used. It was used to determine statistical significance level of p<0.05
Results and discussion. The research included 600 respondents, students from primary and secondary schools in the territory of the Pologi region. The structure of the respondents consisted of 264 (44%) male and 336 (56%) female students. The ethnic structure of the students consisted of 300 Macedonian and 300 Albanian students, 172 (28.67%) were students from the 9th grade, 203 (33.83%) from the 1st year of high school and 225 (37.5%) were students from the 2nd year of high school.
Conclusion. Obviously, the vendors do not consider it a problem as they sell alcohol uncritically to minors. In particular, only one in five of our respondents were turned away when buying alcohol where the seller referred to their youth. So, in our country, minors can buy alcohol without a problem, in violation of the legal regulation, which is obviously not known to the sellers.