• 한국식품영양과학회지
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• 제38권6호
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• pp.694-708
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• 2009

본 연구는 서울시에 거주하는 남자 중 고생을 대상으로 흡연과 음주 현황을 조사하여 흡연 유무에 따라 비흡연군 (199명), 흡연군(11명), 흡연 음주군(52명)으로 분류하였으며, 설문을 통해 흡연과 음주습관, 식생활 관련사항 및 영양섭취상태 등을 조사하여 흡연과 음주습관이 식생활 습관, 영양소 섭취상태 및 건강상태에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지를 조사하였다. 전체 조사대상자의 신장 및 체중은 각각 $173.5{\pm}6.8\;kg$, $64.83{\pm}11.8\;cm$로 신장은 한국인 체위 기준치에 비해 1.5 cm 이상 더 컸으며, 체중은 1.0 kg 정도 높게 조사되었고, 전체 조사대상자의 체질량지수의 평균값은 $21.4{\pm}3.7\;kg/m^2$정도로 나타났다. 전체 조사대상자의 89% 이상이 건강에 대해 관심이 있는 것으로 조사되었으며, 43.5%의 청소년이 자신만의 건강유지 비결로 규칙적인 운동을 가장 많이 손꼽았다. 또한 66.0%의 청소년이 실제로 운동을 하고 있었으며, 일주일에 평균 3번 정도한다고 답한 전체 응답자는 37.3%로 가장 많은 비율을 차지하였다. 1회 운동 시 평균 운동시간은 30분${\sim}$1시간 정도가 가장 많은 비율(46.3%)을 차지하였다. 흡연자 63명 중 음주를 하는 학생이 52명 82.5%이었으며, 11명 17.5%만은 흡연만 하여 본 연구결과에서 보면, 흡연을 하는 경우 음주를 동시에 하는 것으로 조사되었다. 55.6%의 남자 중 고생은 중학교 때 흡연을 시작하였으며, 흡연 동기는 38.1%가 호기심으로 시작했다고 답하였다. 특히 배고플 때 흡연욕구를 강하게 느꼈으며, 흡연 장소로는 화장실이라고 답하였다. 흡연기간은 6개월에서 1년 사이가 가장 많은 비율을 차지하였고, 하루 흡연량은 하루에 $5{\sim}10$개피를 핀다고 답한 비율이 가장 많이 차지하였다. 금연을 하기 위해 시도했던 방법으로는 그냥 참은 경우가 69.0%였으며, 금연에 실패한 이유로는 의지부족이 44.4%로 가장 많은 비율을 차지하였다. 금연의 의향을 묻는 질문에는 전체 조사대상자의 87.1%가 금연을 하고 싶다고 답하였으나, 금연 프로그램을 실시하면 참여하겠느냐는 질문에는 단지 56.7%만이 참여하길 원하였다. 흡연 음주군에서 음주 시작 시기는 50.0%가 고등학교 때 시작하였으며, 사교적 필요성에 의해서 음주를 시작하였다고 답하였다. 음주는 주로 지정된 장소에서 하였으며, 조사대상자의 반 이상의 남자 중 고생이 한 번에 마시는 술의 양은 소주 한 병이하라고 답하였다. 음주의 욕구를 강하게 느낄 때는 친구가 술을 먹을 때라고 답하였으며, 금주 의향을 묻는 질문에는 단지 40.4%만이 금주를 하겠다고 답하였다. 34.4%의 아동이 매일 아침식사를 하는 것으로 조사되었으며, 아침식사를 전혀 하지 않는 결식률도 16.4%나 되었다. 아침식사를 거르는 이유로는 47.0%가 '아침시간이 바빠 시간이 없어서'라고 답하였으며, 건강상의 문제를 고려해 볼 때 결식의 방안을 마련하는 것이 시급한 과제라고 사료된다. 과식을 하는 이유로는 전체 조사대상자의 52.5%가 좋아하는 음식이 많아서 과식을 하는 것으로 조사되었으며, 흡연 음주군에서 과식을 자주하는 것으로 나타났다(p<0.05). 간식의 경우 하루에 $1{\sim}2$회 한다는 전체 청소년의 비율이 72.6%를 차지하였으며, 간식으로 섭취하는 식품으로는 비흡연군에서는 빵류 및 감자 40.2%, 패스트푸드 및 튀김식품을 30.7%로 많이 섭취하고 있었으며(p<0.05), 흡연군에서는 탄산음료 및 빙과류를 간식으로 섭취하는 비율이 36.4%나 되었고, 흡연 음주군에서는 과일류(38.5%)와 패스트푸드 및 튀김식품(26.9%)을 간식으로 가장 많이 섭취하는 것으로 조사되었다. 남자 중 고생이 주식으로 섭취하는 탄수화물 식품의 섭취비율 중 비흡연군에서는 다른 군에 비해 잡곡과 현미를 각각 45.7%와 36.2%로 유의하게 높았다(p<0.05). 흡연 음주군에서는 과일을 자주 섭취하는 비율이 9.6%로 매우 낮았으며(p<0.05), 50.0%가 패스트푸드를 섭취하는 것으로 조사되었다. 식생활 평가에서는 흡연군에서 삼겹살, 갈비 등 지방이 많은 육류를 주 2회 이상 먹는 비율이 높았으며, 아이스크림이나 과자, 탄산음료를 주 2회 이상 간식으로 자주 먹는 비율도 54.3%로 유의하게 높았다(p<0.05). 전체적인 영양소 섭취상태는 $15{\sim}19$세 청소년의 영양섭취기준에 제시한 기준치에 비해 현저히 높았으며, 열량 섭취의 경우 비흡연군에 비해 흡연군과 음주 흡연군에서 유의하게 높았다(p<0.05). 특히 흡연 음주군에서는 다른 군에 비해 인이 유의하게 높은 것으로 조사되었으며(p<0.05), 콜레스테롤(p<0.05)과 소디움(p<0.05) 섭취량은 흡연군에서 가장 높았다. 본 연구결과 청소년들이 흡연과 음주를 하게 되는 가장 큰 이유가 친구나 학교 선 후배 등 또래 집단의 영향을 받는 것으로 조사되었으며, 충동적인 호기심에 의해 시작하는 경우가 많아 흡연과 음주가 건강에 미치는 유해성에 대한 인식이 부족하였다. 또한 흡연을 하는 경우 음주를 동시에 하는 남자 중 고생이 82%가 넘는 것으로 나타나 청소년들의 흡연과 음주 실태는 심각한 사회 문제라 할 수 있으며, 식생활 습관도 음주 흡연군에서는 과일 섭취가 낮은 반면 고열량 식품 선호 및 과식을 하는 것으로 조사되었고, 흡연군에서는 육류 및 가공식품등의 섭취가 높았다. 따라서 선행연구(6)에서도 지적했듯이 친구들의 흡연과 음주의 권유를 단호하게 거절할 수 있는 대처방법을 습득시키거나 흡연과 음주의 욕구를 느낄 때의 실질적인 대처 수단 및 금연을 하는 구체적인 방법 등의 현실적인 교육이 필요하다고 사료된다. 흡연과 음주로 인해 발생되는 편식이나 과식 등의 잘못된 식습관을 바로 잡아 청소년의 성장 발달에 도움을 줄 수 있는 균형적인 영양섭취가 중요하며, 영양적인 중요성을 인식할 수 있는 교육도 뒷받침되어야 할 것이다. 또한 청소년 시기에 먹거리의 중요성을 인식시켜 건강에 유익하고, 안전한 식품을 선택할 수 있는 감각을 습득시키는 것도 중요할 것으로 사료된다.

• 한국인구학
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.54-66
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• 1988

I. Introduction Since the 1970's drug abuse among young people has increasingly become a social problem in Korea. In the 1980's, drug abuse, especially glue sniffing, has become the cause of many unfortunated incidents resulting in harm to others as well as the abusers themselves. Taking into consideration of the seriousness of this problem, the Republic of Korea National Red Cross initiated a nation-wide research programme, to understand the present situation and to raise the level of public awareness. The goal of this research was to begin a nation - wide campaign against drug abuse. The research team was composed of the Advisary Committee members and the staff of the Youth Department of the Republic of Korea National Red Cross. The data were collected in February 1988 with the collaboration of the staff and volunteers in the local Chapters. The respondents were allocated nation-wide by the quota sampling method. The questionnaires were distributed to the respondents in three groups :2, 700 to junior and senior high school students, 605 to working youths, and 916 to delinquent youths. A total of 4, 221 questionnaires were collected. II. Characteristics of the Respondents The respondents in each group were selected evenly from rural and urban areas. The general characteristics of the respondents can be described as follow: in case of students, the proportions between male and female respondents, and between senior high school and junior high school students were almost evenly distributed. In case of working youths, the proportion of females (80.5%) was higher than those of the students and the delinquents groups. Delinquent youths were defined as those currently being under custody of the centers for juvenile delinquents. Of this number, 38.8% and 68.2% were junior and senior high school drop-outs respectively. The majority of them (92.6%) were male. As for the family background of the respondents, the proportion of those residing in poverty - stricken areas, and the proportion of those from broken families were higher in case of working youths and delinquent youths than those in case of students. III. Present Patterns of Drug Abuse The following summarizes the presents of drug abuse, as tabulated from the results of the survey. 1. Smoking The percentage of youths who smoke was 36% in the student group, 32% m the working youths group, and 94.4% in the delinquent youths group. 2. Alcohol 50.3% of students, 71.6% of working youths, and 93.3% of delinquent youths has experienced drinking alcohol beverages. 3. Tonic: non - alcoholic, caffeinated beverages popular in Korea and Japan The percentage of those who have used tonic at least once was over 90% in all of the three groups. 4. Sedative About 70% of each group has used sedative with the proportion of working youths use higher than those in other groups. 5. Stimulants Those who have used stimulants comprised around 15% in each group. 6. Tranquilizers Somewhat less than 5% of students and working youths, and 28% of delinquent youths, have used tranquilizers. 7. Hypnotics The users of hypnotics amounted to 0.4% of students, 2.6% of working youths and 7.1% of delinquent youths. 8. Marihuana Those who have used marihuana indicated 0.7% of students, 0.8% of working youths, and 13% of delinquent youths. 9. Glue-sniffing The percentage of glue-sniffing was 3.7%, 5% in the students group and in the youths group respectively, but the proportion was unusually high, at 40.7% in the delinquent youths group. From the results of the survey the present situation of drug abuse in Korea can be summarized as follows: 1. A high percentage of Korean youths have experienced smoking cigarettes and drinking alcoholic beverages. 2. Tonics (non - alcoholic, caffeinated beverages), antipyretic analgesics and stimulants quite regularly used. 3. Tranquilizers, hypnotics, marihuana and glue-sniffing are more widely used among delinquent youths than the other youths. From this fact, there exists a correlation between drug abuse and juvenile delinquency. IV. Time-series Analysis of the First Experience of Drug Abuse and Deviant Behaviour The respoundents were asked when they were first exposed to drugs and when they committed deviant acts. By calculating the average age of each experience, the following pattern was found (See Figure 1). Youths are first exposed to drugs by abuse of tonic(non - alcoholic, caffeinated beverages). At the age of 13, they amoke cigarettes, the use of antipyretic analgesics begins at 14 year old, while at the age of 15, they use tranquilizers, and at 16 hynotics. The period of drug abuse which starts from drinking caffeinated beverages and smoking cigarettes and ends in the use of hypnotics takes about three years. During this period, other delinquent behaviours begin to surface, that is, at the age of 13 when smoking cigarettes begins, the delinquent behaviour pattern starts with truancy. Next, they start taking money from others by using physical force. Prior to the age of 15, they are suspended from school, become hostile to adults, begin running away from home, and start using stimulants and alcohol. Soon they become involved even in glue-sniffing and in the use of marihuana. At the age of 15, they begin to see adult videos and carry weapons. Sexual promiscuity and usage of tranquilizers follows the viewing of adult videos. Consequently, by the time they reach the age of 16, they visit drinking establishments, and are picked up by police for committing delinquent acts. And finally, they come to use hypnotic - type drugs. From the above descriptions, drug abuse can be assumed to have a close correlation with delinquent behaviour. V. Social Factors Related to Drug Abuse As for the Korean youths, glue-sniffing is found to he related to aggressive delinquency, in such cases as run - aways, being picked up by the police, and taking money by force. Smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol is found to be related to seeing adult videos and visiting drinking establishments. Hypnotics and marihuana were found to be representive of drugs which are related to degenerational delinquency, irrespective of social delinquency. The social factors connected with these drug abuse are as follows: 1. Individual factors Male students were more heavily involved in the usage of drug than females. Youths who do not attend church were more likely to be involved in drugs than those who attend. 2. Family factors The youths who were displeased with their mothers smoking and those who thought their parents did not love each other, or those whose parents had used drugs without prescription, were more likely to he drug users. 3. School factors Those youths who found school life boring, were unsuccessful in their studies, spend most of their time with friends, feel their teachers smoke too much, those who had a positive perception of their teachers smoking were likely to he drug users. To sum up, drug abusers depend on the influence of their parents, teachers and peers. IV. Reasons for Drug Abuse Korean students have mainly used drugs to release stress (42.8%), to stay awake (19.7%), and because of the easy accessibility of drugs( 16.6%). Other reasons are due to their ignorance of the side effects of the drugs (3.6%), natural curiosity (4.2%), and to increase strength(3.O%). From the above facts, the major reasons for drug abuse among Korean youths are to release stress and to stay awake in order to prepare exams. Furthermore, since drugs are readily available, we can conclude that drug abuse is caused by the school system(such as entrance exams) in Korea. VII. Conclusion Drug usage among Korean youths are relatively less common than those of western youths. In some cases, such as, glue-sniffing and use of stimulants, the pattern of drug abuse is found. Moreover, early drug abuse is evident, and it has a close connection with deviant behaviour, resulting in juvenile delinquency. Drug abuse cannot be attributed to any one social factor. Specifically, drug abuse depends on parents, peers, teachers and other members of the community, and also is influenced by social institutions such as the entrance exam system. Every person and organization concerned with youth must participate collectively in restraining drug abuse. Finally, it is suggested that social agencial working for youth welfare should make every effort to tackle this serious problem confronted by the Korean youths today.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.165-203
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• 1987

This project was a service-cum-research effort with a quasi-experimental study design to examine the health benefits of an integrated Family Planning (FP)/Maternal & Child health (MCH) Service approach that provides crucial factors missing in the present on-going programs. The specific objectives were: 1) To test the effectiveness of trained nurse/midwives (MW) assigned as change agents in the Health Sub-Center (HSC) to bring about the changes in the eight FP/MCH indicators, namely; (i)FP/MCH contacts between field workers and their clients (ii) the use of effective FP methods, (iii) the inter-birth interval and/or open interval, (iv) prenatal care by medically qualified personnel, (v) medically supervised deliveries, (vi) the rate of induced abortion, (vii) maternal and infant morbidity, and (viii) preinatal & infant mortality. 2) To measure the integrative linkage (contacts) between MW & HSC workers and between HSC and clients. 3) To examine the organizational or administrative factors influencing integrative linkage between health workers. Study design; The above objectives called for quasi-experimental design setting up a study and control area with and without a midwife. An active intervention program (FP/MCH minimum 'package' program) was conducted for a 2 year period from June 1982-July 1984 in Seosan County and 'before and after' surveys were conducted to measure the change. Service input; This study was undertaken by the Soonchunhyang University in collaboration with WHO. After a baseline survery in 1981, trained nurses/midwives were introduced into two health sub-centers in a rural setting (Seosan county) for a 2 year period from 1982 to 1984. A major service input was the establishment of midwifery services in the existing health delivery system with emphasis on nurse/midwife's role as the link between health workers (nurse aids) and village health workers, and the referral of risk patients to the private physician (OBGY specialist). An evaluation survey was made in August 1984 to assess the effectiveness of this alternative integrated approach in the study areas in comparison with the control area which had normal government services. Method of evaluation; a. In this study, the primary objective was first to examine to what extent the FP/MCH package program brought about changes in the pre-determined eight indicators (outcome and impact measures) and the following relationship was first analyzed; b. Nevertheless, this project did not automatically accept the assumption that if two or more activities were integrated, the results would automatically be better than a non-integrated or categorical program. There is a need to assess the 'integration process' itself within the package program. The process of integration was measured in terms of interactive linkages, or the quantity & quality of contacts between workers & clients and among workers. Intergrative linkages were hypothesized to be influenced by organizational factors at the HSC clinic level including HSC goals, sltrurture, authority, leadership style, resources, and personal characteristics of HSC staff. The extent or degree of integration, as measured by the intensity of integrative linkages, was in turn presumed to influence programme performance. Thus as indicated diagrammatically below, organizational factors constituted the independent variables, integration as the intervening variable and programme performance with respect to family planning and health services as the dependent variable: Concerning organizational factors, however, due to the limited number of HSCs (2 in the study area and 3 in the control area), they were studied by participatory observation of an anthropologist who was independent of the project. In this observation, we examined whether the assumed integration process actually occurred or not. If not, what were the constraints in producing an effective integration process. Summary of Findings; A) Program effects and impact 1. Effects on FP use: During this 2 year action period, FP acceptance increased from 58% in 1981 to 78% in 1984 in both the study and control areas. This increase in both areas was mainly due to the new family planning campaign driven by the Government for the same study period. Therefore, there was no increment of FP acceptance rate due to additional input of MW to the on-going FP program. But in the study area, quality aspects of FP were somewhat improved, having a better continuation rate of IUDs & pills and more use of effective Contraceptive methods in comparison with the control area. 2. Effects of use of MCH services: Between the study and control areas, however, there was a significant difference in maternal and child health care. For example, the coverage of prenatal care was increased from 53% for 1981 birth cohort to 75% for 1984 birth cohort in the study area. In the control area, the same increased from 41% (1981) to 65% (1984). It is noteworthy that almost two thirds of the recent birth cohort received prenatal care even in the control area, indicating that there is a growing demand of MCH care as the size of family norm becomes smaller 3. There has been a substantive increase in delivery care by medical professions in the study area, with an annual increase rate of 10% due to midwives input in the study areas. The project had about two times greater effect on postnatal care (68% vs. 33%) at delivery care(45.2% vs. 26.1%). 4. The study area had better reproductive efficiency (wanted pregancies with FP practice & healthy live births survived by one year old) than the control area, especially among women under 30 (14.1% vs. 9.6%). The proportion of women who preferred the 1st trimester for their first prenatal care rose significantly in the study area as compared to the control area (24% vs 13%). B) Effects on Interactive Linkage 1. This project made a contribution in making several useful steps in the direction of service integration, namely; i) The health workers have become familiar with procedures on how to work together with each other (especially with a midwife) in carrying out their work in FP/MCH and, ii) The health workers have gotten a feeling of the usefulness of family health records (statistical integration) in identifying targets in their own work and their usefulness in caring for family health. 2. On the other hand, because of a lack of required organizational factors, complete linkage was not obtained as the project intended. i) In regards to the government health worker's activities in terms of home visiting there was not much difference between the study & control areas though the MW did more home visiting than Government health workers. ii) In assessing the service performance of MW & health workers, the midwives balanced their workload between 40% FP, 40% MCH & 20% other activities (mainly immunization). However, $85{\sim}90%$ of the services provided by the health workers were other than FP/MCH, mainly for immunizations such as the encephalitis campaign. In the control area, a similar pattern was observed. Over 75% of their service was other than FP/MCH. Therefore, the pattern shows the health workers are a long way from becoming multipurpose workers even though the government is pushing in this direction. 3. Villagers were much more likely to visit the health sub-center clinic in the study area than in the control area (58% vs.31%) and for more combined care (45% vs.23%). C) Organization factors (admistrative integrative issues) 1. When MW (new workers with higher qualification) were introduced to HSC, it was noted that there were conflicts between the existing HSC workers (Nurse aids with less qualification than MW) and the MW for the beginning period of the project. The cause of the conflict was studied by an anthropologist and it was pointed out that these functional integration problems stemmed from the structural inadequacies of the health subcenter organization as indicated below; i) There is still no general consensus about the objectives and goals of the project between the project staff and the existing health workers. ii) There is no formal linkage between the responsibility of each member's job in the health sub-center. iii) There is still little chance for midwives to play a catalytic role or to establish communicative networks between workers in order to link various knowledge and skills to provide better FP/MCH services in the health sub-center. 2. Based on the above findings the project recommended to the County Chief (who has power to control the administrative staff and the technical staff in his county) the following ; i) In order to solve the conflicts between the individual roles and functions in performing health care activities, there must be goals agreed upon by both. ii) The health sub·center must function as an autonomous organization to undertake the integration health project. In order to do that, it is necessary to support administrative considerations, and to establish a communication system for supervision and to control of the health sub-centers. iii) The administrative organization, tentatively, must be organized to bind the health worker's midwive's and director's jobs by an organic relationship in order to achieve the integrative system under the leadership of health sub-center director. After submitting this observation report, there has been better understanding from frequent meetings & communication between HW/MW in FP/MCH work as the program developed. Lessons learned from the Seosan Project (on issues of FP/MCH integration in Korea); 1) A majority or about 80% of the couples are now practicing FP. As indicated by the study, there is a growing demand from clients for the health system to provide more MCH services than FP in order to maintain the achieved small size of family through FP practice. It is fortunate to see that the government is now formulating a MCH policy for the year 2,000 and revising MCH laws and regulations to emphasize more MCH care for achieving a small size family through family planning practice. 2) Goal consensus in FP/MCH shouBd be made among the health workers It administrators, especially to emphasize the need of care of 'wanted' child. But there is a long way to go to realize the 'real' integration of FP into MCH in Korea, unless there is a structural integration FP/MCH because a categorical FP is still first priority to reduce the rate of population growth for economic reasons but not yet for health/welfare reasons in practice. 3) There should be more financial allocation: (i) a midwife should be made available to help to promote the MCH program and coordinate services, (in) there should be a health sub·center director who can provide leadership training for managing the integrated program. There is a need for 'organizational support', if the decision of integration is made to obtain benefit from both FP & MCH. In other words, costs should be paid equally to both FP/MCH. The integration slogan itself, without the commitment of paying such costs, is powerless to advocate it. 4) Need of management training for middle level health personnel is more acute as the Government has already constructed 90 MCH centers attached to the County Health Center but without adequate manpower, facilities, and guidelines for integrating the work of both FP and MCH. 5) The local government still considers these MCH centers only as delivery centers to take care only of those visiting maternity cases. The MCH center should be a center for the managment of all pregnancies occurring in the community and the promotion of FP with a systematic and effective linkage of resources available in the county such as i.e. Village Health Worker, Community Health Practitioner, Health Sub-center Physicians & Health workers, Doctors and Midwives in MCH center, OBGY Specialists in clinics & hospitals as practiced by the Seosan project at primary health care level.