ผู้วิจัย/Authors: Jiravat Moolasart

ชื่อเรื่อง/Title: Actual Drink Size: Challenge from Ethnographic Study in a Thai-Lsan Village.

แหล่งที่มา/Source: Journal of the Psychiatric Association of Thailand, Vol.53, No.4, October-December 2008 , page 394.

รายละเอียด / Details:

Background: Volume measurement in survey study of drinking usually uses standard drink size or actuai drink size as a unit of quantification. However, the definitions of a drinking unit differ across countries, even in different regions of a country. Objective: The aims of this ethnographic study were to study drinking practices and actual drink sizes in a Thai-lsan village. Mwthod; Data were collected from January to August 2008 by participant observation in various occasions of drinking and informal interview including >45 key-informants, and were analyzed by content analysis methed. Results; Actual drink sizes varied by types of alcoholic beverage, containers, and drinking practices. Pek, which contained 30 ml. of beverage, was used for Lao Khao. Beer drinker usually drank in a glass filled with ice, so, quantity of beer per glass varied from glass to glass. For spirit drinker. The quantity of spirit that was poured into a glass, varied by gender and drinking preference. Lao Khao drinkers could respond more accurately about their consumptions when they were asked about the quantity of drinking per occasion, while the others usually responded by the sizes of container of beverage per number of drinkers. In the communal activity that many people involved. The response of drinking quantity was quite difficult because of the various sizes of vessels and the drinking atmosphere. To estimate the volume of individual drinking. In consideration of variation of alcohol content and container sizes, these responses yielded asignificant difference in term of gram of ethanol. Conclusion: Understanding the local customs of actual drinking behaviors and drinking practices can help researcher to design an appropriate survey research tool for individually measuring volume of drinking. In addition, educating the public about drinking level and health impacts should be based on cultural context of drinking, types and vessels of actual drink and drinking practices by using the locally defined actual drink sizes.

Keywords: alcoholic beverage, drinking unti, standard drink, actual drink

ปีที่เผยแพร่/Year: 2008

Address: Sappasitthiprasong Hospital

Code: 2010000249

ISSN/ISBN: 0125-6985

Country of publication: Thailand

Language: English

Category: Abstract

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