PMID- 11019560
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20001027
LR  - 20061115
IS  - 1341-8963 (Print)
IS  - 1341-8963 (Linking)
VI  - 35
IP  - 4
DP  - 2000 Aug
TI  - [Prevalence of problem drinkers among dental students].
PG  - 247-57
AB  - In 1997 and 1998 we statistically studied fourth-year dental students for their 
      drinking and smoking habits. The subjects numbered 103 (65 males, 38 females) in 
      1997 and 127 (79 males, 48 females) in 1998, totaling 230. The questionnaire 
      included the Kurihama Alcoholism Screening Test (KAST), the Adolescent Alcohol 
      Involvement Scale (AAIS), and the Fagerstrom Tolerance Questionnaire (FTQ). 
      Problem drinkers as defined by KAST, scoring at least 2 points, represented 12.6% 
      of the total in 1997 and 13.4% in 1998, exceeding 10% in both years. Alcoholic 
      misusers, with at least 42 point on the AAIS, stood at 19.4% in 1997 and 17.3% in 
      1998. The incidence of students assessed as having 6 points on the 
      Quantity-Frequency Scale (QF Scale) stood at 18.4% in 1997 and 10.2% in 1998. 
      Compared between two sexes, KAST detected no significant difference between the 
      two groups: 13.9% for males and 11.6% for females. Alcoholic abusers on the AAIS, 
      however, were estimated at 22.9% in males and 9.3% in females, the ratio for 
      males being more than twice as high as that for females. It was also found that 
      47.9% of the male students and 33.7% of their female counterparts drank every 
      weekend and that 31.3% of the males and 5.8% of the females kept drinking until 
      they were drunk. Female students thus appeared to drink more frequently, though 
      they consumed smaller amounts of alcohol at a time. The smoking rate was lower 
      than the average in the Japanese for both groups; nicotine dependence was also 
      lower in dental students. It was demonstrated that dental students drink more 
      alcohol more frequently, with a higher incidence of problem drinkers.
FAU - Watanabe, H
AU  - Watanabe H
AD  - Department of Dental Public Health, Nihon University School of Dentistry at 
      Matsudo, Chiba, Japan.
FAU - Nasu, I
AU  - Nasu I
LA  - jpn
PT  - English Abstract
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Japan
TA  - Nihon Arukoru Yakubutsu Igakkai Zasshi
JT  - Nihon Arukoru Yakubutsu Igakkai zasshi = Japanese journal of alcohol studies & 
      drug dependence
JID - 9612304
SB  - IM
MH  - Alcohol Drinking/*epidemiology
MH  - Alcoholism/epidemiology
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Japan/epidemiology
MH  - Male
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - *Students, Dental
EDAT- 2000/10/06 11:00
MHDA- 2001/02/28 10:01
CRDT- 2000/10/06 11:00
PHST- 2000/10/06 11:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2001/02/28 10:01 [medline]
PHST- 2000/10/06 11:00 [entrez]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Nihon Arukoru Yakubutsu Igakkai Zasshi. 2000 Aug;35(4):247-57.