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College Student Drinking Habits and Awareness about Liver Health Based on Gender

This study evaluated the drinking habits of college students and their perception regarding the liver health by gender. The target students attended colleges located in Busan area. The most common social perception of drinking was “Drinking alcoholic beverage is essential for making a good interpersonal relationship (3.49 points)”. “It is good for the man to know how to drink alcoholic beverage (3.49 points)” was the second and the third was “Alcoholic drink makes life more elegant and tasteful (3.01 points)”. Among 15 questions related to the knowledge on the liver health, respondents showed more than 90% correct answer rate only for three questions, which were “Drinking can cause esophageal cancer, liver cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and hepatocirrhosis (94.3%)’, ‘Drinking alcohol well does not mean that the person is healthy (93.3%)’, and ‘The incidence of cirrhosis is high when drinking alcohol for 15-20 years or more. (93.0%)’. The results indicated that the level of knowledge was not much different between genders. Therefore, it will be necessary to prepare education material to improve the behavior of the male since the male had more generous drinking perception and more frequent drinking binge frequency, although the level of knowledge was little different between genders.