Alcohol Consumption and Risky Drinking Patterns among College Students from Selected Countries of the Carpathian Euroregion

Table 2

Self-assessment of the frequency of drinking different types of alcohol by country.

	Poland		Slovakia		Ukraine		Romania		Total		p value
	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
Alcohol											< 0.001
never	34	7.8	52	13.5	44	20.6	138	41.2	268	19.6
in the past	13	3.0	26	6.8	21	9.8	10	3.0	70	5.1
occasionally	359	82.3	287	74.7	135	63.1	179	53.4	960	70.1
regularly	30	6.9	19	4.9	14	6.5	8	2.4	71	5.2
Standard drinks per week mean (SD)	10.2 (14.1)		9.7 (16.1)		9.7 (14.7)		6.5 (14.6)		9.1 (14.9)
Beer											< 0.001
I do not drink	64	14.7	126	32.8	67	31.3	169	50.4	426	31.1
several times a year	31	7.1	32	8.3	7	3.3	32	9.6	102	7.5
once a month	81	18.6	39	10.2	19	8.9	20	6.0	159	11.6
once a week	140	32.1	100	26.0	58	27.1	62	18.5	360	26.3
3–4 times a week	107	24.5	70	18.2	55	25.7	44	13.1	276	20.2
every day	13	3.0	17	4.4	8	3.7	8	2.4	46	3.4
Standard drinks per week mean (SD)	6.6 (9.4)		5.0 (8.3)		5.8 (9.0)		3.7 (9.3)		5.3 (9.1)
Vodka											< 0.001
I do not drink	92	21.1	148	38.5	90	42.1	226	67.5	556	40.6
several times a year	104	23.9	61	15.9	24	11.2	38	11.3	227	16.6
once a month	130	29.8	67	17.4	46	21.5	21	6.3	264	19.3
once a week	85	19.5	84	21.9	44	20.6	41	12.2	254	18.6
3–4 times a week	24	5.5	24	6.3	7	3.3	8	2.4	63	4.6
every day	1	0.2	0	0.0	3	1.4	1	0.3	5	0.4
Standard drinks per week mean (SD)	2.6 (5.9)		2.8 (6.5)		2.4 (6.4)		0.9 (3.7)		2.2 (5.7)
Wine											< 0.001
I do not drink	157	36.0	129	33.6	74	34.6	162	48.4	522	38.1
several times a year	117	26.8	71	18.5	42	19.6	50	14.9	280	20.5
once a month	82	18.8	88	22.9	42	19.6	35	10.4	247	18.0
once a week	69	15.8	71	18.5	46	21.5	59	17.6	245	17.9
3–4 times a week	9	2.1	24	6.3	8	3.7	26	7.8	67	4.9
every day	2	0.5	1	0.3	2	0.9	3	0.9	8	0.6
Standard drinks per week mean (SD)	1.0 (2.3)		1.9 (5.3)		1.4 (3.9)		1.9 (5.3)		1.5 (4.4)