Study On Noncommercial Alcohol Use Among The Rural Residents In China

ObjectThe study is aimed to understand the type, drinking frequency and drink-driving ofnon-commercial alcoholic beverages among the rural residents in China, through theinvestigation of noncommercial alcohol use. To promote the health drinking behavior ofrural residents and provide scientific basis for the Global Actions on Harmful-DrinkingProject.MethodCluster sampling was used to sample the rural residents in Hubei, Anhui and Hebeiprovince. Each province have to complete at least1,000valid questionnaires, using‘face-to-face’ interview to finish the questionnaires. Registering and coding therecycling questionnaires. Using EpiData3.0to enter the data. The descriptive statisticalanalysis was used to analyze the data of the basic situation and drinking behavior, andThe CMH-χ2test was used to analyze the data of Classification.Result1. In all3268respondents, the ratio of male and female is4:1. Their age concentrateon30to70years old, counting for85%. Most of them live in rural, counting for85.58%, and there are13.90%live in town. Their occupation is mainly farming,counting for52.33%.91.86%of the respondents are in marriage. And education isconcentrated in the junior high school, accounted for42.96%.2. The alcohol type is mainly to the non-brewed liquor, brewed liquor and beer, accounted for30.88%,26.56%and42.56%respectively. Most of rural residents drinkhigh degree of alcohol (which is greater than45degrees), counting for80.11%.Frequency is concentrated on occasionally drinking, counting for42.56%. Theproportion of drink-driving car nearly a year is4.19%, the proportion of drink-driving amotorcycle and bicycle is16.59%and22.80%, respectively.3. There are significant differences in drink frequency, drinking home-brewed liquor,drink-driving (including car, motorcycle and bicycle) nearly a year, being advised todrink and persuading others to drink in different ages of rural residents (P<0.0001,P=0.0379of the bicycle).4. There are significant differences in drink frequency, drinking home-brewed liquor,drink-driving (including car, motorcycle and bicycle) nearly a year, being advised todrink and persuading others to drink in different gender of rural residents (P<0.0001,P=0.0132of the bicycle).5. There are significant differences in drink frequency, drinking home-brewed liquor,the degree of home-brewed liquor they drink, drink-driving (including car, motorcycleand bicycle) nearly a year, being advised to drink and persuading others to drink indifferent regions of rural residents (P<0.0001).ConclusionIn rural residents, there is a higher proportion and high degree of drinking brewedliquor, but the drinking frequency is mainly to low frequency. There are significantdifferences in different ages, gender and regions of rural residents in brewed liquordrinking behavior. The proportion of drink cycling is higher to22.8%, and theproportion of riding a motorcycle after drinking is also up to16.59%, there aredifferences in different ages, gender and regions.