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Prevalence and Factors Associated with Alcohol Use among Dayak Adolescents in Sarawak, Malaysia.

Introduction: Alcohol is classified as a psychoactive substance, and its dependence is one of the three leading risk factors for death, disability, or disease. Early age alcohol use by the age of 15 is implied to be harmful due to interference in the brain development of adolescents, causing alcohol...

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Main Authors: Mohd Faiz, Gahamat, Md Mizanur, Rahman, Razitasham, Safii
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Published: FAKULTI PERUBATAN DAN SAINS KESIHATAN, UPM SERDANG 2023
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RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
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spelling my.unimas.ir.411762023-01-20T00:18:17Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/41176/ Prevalence and Factors Associated with Alcohol Use among Dayak Adolescents in Sarawak, Malaysia. Mohd Faiz, Gahamat Md Mizanur, Rahman Razitasham, Safii RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine Introduction: Alcohol is classified as a psychoactive substance, and its dependence is one of the three leading risk factors for death, disability, or disease. Early age alcohol use by the age of 15 is implied to be harmful due to interference in the brain development of adolescents, causing alcohol-related problems later in life. This study aims to determine the prevalence and factors associated with alcohol use among Dayak adolescents in Sarawak, Malaysia. Methods: This was a cross-sectional quantitative research approach. A total of 12 districts within the 12 divisions were selected by multistage stratified cluster sampling. Dayak housing area lists were obtained from district offices and the local councils. The respondents were selected systematically according to male and female respondent houses, and they were interviewed using an interviewer-administered questionnaire. Data were entered into Microsoft Excel and analysed through IBM SPSS Version 27.0. Results: Dayak adolescents’ mean age was 17.31 years. They were either low-risk (50.0 %), hazardous (31.0%), abstainers (11.0%), harmful (5.0%) or alcohol dependant (3.0%) drinkers. Age (p<.001), gender (p<.05), ethnicity (p<.001), religion (p<.05), employment (p<.001), level of education (p<.01), allowance (p<.001), family relationship (p<.05), and family size (p<.05) were the potential predictors of alcohol use disorder. Conclusion: Dayak adolescent alcohol drinking is prevalent and a public health problem, particularly among disadvantaged socio-economic families. The lower proportion of abstainers suggested that alcohol use among adolescents is on the rise. Hence, the results should be utilised to do targeted health promotion regarding harmful alcohol use among adolescents since early use of alcohol among adolescents may lead to more severe health and non-health outcomes in the future FAKULTI PERUBATAN DAN SAINS KESIHATAN, UPM SERDANG 2023-01-20 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/41176/4/Prevalence.pdf Mohd Faiz, Gahamat and Md Mizanur, Rahman and Razitasham, Safii (2023) Prevalence and Factors Associated with Alcohol Use among Dayak Adolescents in Sarawak, Malaysia. Malaysian Journal of Medicine and Health Sciences, 19 (1). pp. 215-233. ISSN 2636-9346 https://medic.upm.edu.my/upload/dokumen/2023011613320428_MJMHS_0273.pdf doi:10.47836/mjmhs19.1.29
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topic RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
spellingShingle RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Mohd Faiz, Gahamat
Md Mizanur, Rahman
Razitasham, Safii
Prevalence and Factors Associated with Alcohol Use among Dayak Adolescents in Sarawak, Malaysia.
description Introduction: Alcohol is classified as a psychoactive substance, and its dependence is one of the three leading risk factors for death, disability, or disease. Early age alcohol use by the age of 15 is implied to be harmful due to interference in the brain development of adolescents, causing alcohol-related problems later in life. This study aims to determine the prevalence and factors associated with alcohol use among Dayak adolescents in Sarawak, Malaysia. Methods: This was a cross-sectional quantitative research approach. A total of 12 districts within the 12 divisions were selected by multistage stratified cluster sampling. Dayak housing area lists were obtained from district offices and the local councils. The respondents were selected systematically according to male and female respondent houses, and they were interviewed using an interviewer-administered questionnaire. Data were entered into Microsoft Excel and analysed through IBM SPSS Version 27.0. Results: Dayak adolescents’ mean age was 17.31 years. They were either low-risk (50.0 %), hazardous (31.0%), abstainers (11.0%), harmful (5.0%) or alcohol dependant (3.0%) drinkers. Age (p<.001), gender (p<.05), ethnicity (p<.001), religion (p<.05), employment (p<.001), level of education (p<.01), allowance (p<.001), family relationship (p<.05), and family size (p<.05) were the potential predictors of alcohol use disorder. Conclusion: Dayak adolescent alcohol drinking is prevalent and a public health problem, particularly among disadvantaged socio-economic families. The lower proportion of abstainers suggested that alcohol use among adolescents is on the rise. Hence, the results should be utilised to do targeted health promotion regarding harmful alcohol use among adolescents since early use of alcohol among adolescents may lead to more severe health and non-health outcomes in the future
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author Mohd Faiz, Gahamat
Md Mizanur, Rahman
Razitasham, Safii
author_facet Mohd Faiz, Gahamat
Md Mizanur, Rahman
Razitasham, Safii
author_sort Mohd Faiz, Gahamat
title Prevalence and Factors Associated with Alcohol Use among Dayak Adolescents in Sarawak, Malaysia.
title_short Prevalence and Factors Associated with Alcohol Use among Dayak Adolescents in Sarawak, Malaysia.
title_full Prevalence and Factors Associated with Alcohol Use among Dayak Adolescents in Sarawak, Malaysia.
title_fullStr Prevalence and Factors Associated with Alcohol Use among Dayak Adolescents in Sarawak, Malaysia.
title_full_unstemmed Prevalence and Factors Associated with Alcohol Use among Dayak Adolescents in Sarawak, Malaysia.
title_sort prevalence and factors associated with alcohol use among dayak adolescents in sarawak, malaysia.
publisher FAKULTI PERUBATAN DAN SAINS KESIHATAN, UPM SERDANG
publishDate 2023
url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/41176/4/Prevalence.pdf
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