중독 관련 행동 문제에 대한 일반인들의 인식조사

Social Attitudes about Behavioral Problems Related to Addictions in a Korean City Population

The purpose of this survey was to obtain a comprehensive social attitude about alcohol, pathological gambling and internet addiction in a Korean city population. 425 volunteers living in Seoul were surveyed by questionnaire about the demographic data, attitude about behavioral problems related to addictions. They responded to these problems’severity about alcohol (82.1%), pathological gambling (75.3%), and internet (73%) addiction, But most of them answered that the perceived reason of alcoholism and internet addiction was social atmosphere (each 51.5%, 43.7%), and that the cause of pathological gambling was personality (38.2%). The rates of answer that chose the biological cause of addictions were 3.5% in alcoholism, 5.4% in pathological gambling, 3.6% in internet addiction. These results suggest that most of the people well recognized these addiction’s severity but they did not have a concept that addiction is a disease. Therefore, we concluded that to treat early, there should be systemic information and guidance about the clinical organizations or centers.