title: The role of paternal drinking problems in the psychological characteristics of high school students.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  It has been reported that children with parental drinking problems are at increased risk of drinking problems or psychiatric diseases in adulthood. The present study was conducted to examine the psychiatric characteristics of high school students according to paternal drinking problems.
  
  
  METHODS
  The subjects were 950 high school students (390 male and 560 female). The paternal drinking problems were assessed by using the Father-Short Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test. The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test, Beck's depression inventory, and Beck's anxiety inventory were used to evaluate the drinking behavior, depression, and anxiety of high school students.
  
  
  RESULTS
  While male students with paternal drinking problems showed significantly increased risk of anxiety (odds ratio [OR], 2.21; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.05 to 4.63), female students with paternal drinking problems showed significantly increased risk of depression (OR, 1.84; 95% CI, 1.24 to 2.74) according to the results of logistic regression analysis with adjustments for participants' age, whether they live together with parents, their religion, club activities, and smoking habits on the basis of students without paternal drinking problems.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The above results suggest that paternal drinking problems lead to unstable mentalities in both male and female students, and that a family physician should address the mental state of teenagers with paternal drinking problems during clinical encounters.
authors: Department of Family Medicine, Research Institute for Medical Sciences, Chungnam National University School of Medicine, Daejeon, Korea.
authors: Dong Hyun
authors: DH
authors: Choi
authors: Jong Sung
authors: JS
authors: Kim
authors: Jin Gyu
authors: JG
authors: Jung
authors: Young Il
authors: YI
authors: Ryou
authors: Young Seok
authors: YS
authors: Kim
authors: Won Chul
authors: WC
authors: Uh
keywords: Alcohol; Anxiety; Depression; Fathers; Students