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

Table 5

Factors associated with risky drinking.

	Poland (%)		Slovakia (%)		Ukraine (%)		Romania (%)
	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female
Factors
Place of residence
Village	22.1	7.1	26.7	7.7	12.2	16.7	11.5	6.4
City	19.2	15.8	14.9	12.5	18.5	10.2	21.4	1.8
p value	0.60	0.04	0.06	0.24	0.37	0.38	0.14	0.09
Living during studies
family house	17.4	6.1	17.2	4.8	16.0	12.5	17.4	1.1
homestay	16.1	13.6	11.1	7.7	13.8	10.7	18.2	4.8
dormitory	40.0	16.7	24.0	14.0	17.8	13.6	17.6	6.1
p value	0.01	0.11	0.23	0.13	0.90	0.95	1.00	0.26
Father’s education
vocational	23.8	5.6	16.4	8.2	16.7	5.0	14.6	3.1
secondary	17.6	16.7	22.4	9.1	23.8	29.4	16.4	2.2
higher	17.6	20.0	22.6	14.3	14.9	10.2	25.8	8.1
p value	0.54	0.02	0.64	0.54	0.64	0.06	0.41	0.25
Mother’s education
vocational	24.5	8.8	15.4	5.5	11.5	10.0	10.3	3.7
secondary	20.2	9.8	23.6	12.7	27.3	15.4	17.9	1.9
higher	17.6	17.5	17.5	7.1	16.3	10.9	25.6	7.7
p value	0.68	0.31	0.50	0.27	0.50	0.88	0.21	0.25
Smoking
never	16.2	6.8	10.9	3.9	7.2	8.0	8.8	3.3
in the past	28.6	20.7	20.7	5.9	5.6	15.8	46.7	7.1
occasionally	10.0	19.4	37.5	14.3	58.3	25.0	30.0	0.0
regularly	46.2	11.1	38.7	35.5	37.5	40.0	55.6	7.7
p value	< 0.01	0.04	< 0.01	< 0.001	< 0.001	0.15	< 0.001	0.59
Smoking^1
no	16.2	6.8	10.9	3.9	7.2	8.0	8.8	3.3
yes	29.7	18.9	31.6	18.6	30.4	21.9	44.1	4.3
p value	0.02	< 0.01	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.01	0.07	< 0.001	0.73
Financial situation
difficult	15.0	5.7	0.0	0.0	25.0	41.7	24.1	6.1
average	22.2	4.7	21.9	6.3	11.8	7.4	12.5	3.6
good	22.4	17.6	20.6	11.0	17.5	7.8	19.6	2.7
p value	0.59	0.01	0.45	0.50	0.42	< 0.01	0.37	0.65

Dichotomous division, where “yes” contains smoking in the past and currently.