알코올중독자 자녀 선별검사 점수와 가족기능 점수가 자녀의 정신사회적 증상에 미치는 영향

The Influence of Children of Alcoholics Screening Test Score and Family Function Score on Psychosocial Symptoms of Children

Objectives：Alcohol dependence is known to be a disease affecting family function thereby influencing children. This study was designed to evaluate the influence of parents’ drinking and family function on their children’s psychosocial symptoms. Methods：The subjects were consisted of 187 Korean children. Effects of parents’ drinking problems on children were evaluated by the CAST-K (The Korean Version of the Children of Alcoholics Screening Test) questionnaire, family functions by Family APGAR (adaptability, partnership, growth, affection and resolve) and children’s psychosocial symptoms by PSC (Pediatric Symptomatic Checklist)-17. Results：There was a sig-nificant (p<0.01) positive correlation (r=0.374) between CAST score and PSC-17, and a significant (p<0.01) negative correlation (r=-0.302) between Family APGAR score and PSC-17. CAST-K and Family APGAR score had 21.8% explanatory power for children’s psychosocial symptoms by stepwise multiple regression analysis (p=0.000). Conclusion：The above results suggest that the drinking of parents and family dysfunction can produce child-ren’s psychosocial symptoms. When clinicians face children with psychosocial symptoms, they should evaluate the parent’s drink-ing problems and the family function. Also treating a patient with drinking problems, clinicians should evaluate whether their child-ren have psychosocial symptoms or not.