Association between preventive health management and high-risk drinking among women of childbearing age: a correlational study of the ninth Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
Hee Jeong Lee, Hye Young Kim
PMID 41531405WHAT IT FOUND
Among Korean women aged 19-49, high-risk drinking was associated with smoking, skipping breakfast, no dental check-up, employment and lower education; it was not associated with stress, physical activity, general check-ups, cancer screening or flu vaccination.
Key findings
01Women who smoked were 4.20 times more likely to engage in high-risk drinking than nonsmokers.
02Women who skipped breakfast in the past 2 days had a 1.81-fold higher likelihood of high-risk drinking than those who did not skip breakfast.
03Women who did not undergo dental check-ups were 1.70 times more likely to be high-risk drinkers than those who did.
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What it does not show
The data are a single snapshot, so it cannot show that skipping breakfast, not going to dental check-ups, smoking, employment or lower education caused high-risk drinking. Alcohol use and health behaviors were self-reported, so some women may have underreported drinking or check-ups. Pregnant and breastfeeding women were excluded, so it does not describe high-risk drinking in those groups, even though alcohol risk is important there. The sample was limited to Korean women aged 19-49 with complete key data, so results may not apply to other countries or to women with missing information. The study did not test whether asking about alcohol at visits or giving counselling changed drinking.
Declared interests
The authors declared no conflict of interest and reported no funding.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read the associations as evidence that changing breakfast, dental check-ups, smoking, employment or education will change drinking. This was a single survey, not a test of an intervention.