Healthy lifestyle status related to alcohol and food addiction risk among college students: a logistic regression analysis

Abstract

Objective

This study aimed to determine whether low healthy lifestyle (HL) status was associated with alcohol and food addiction risks among college students.

Method

The data were gathered through an online survey questionnaire from 311 college students. The students were divided into either a lower or a higher HL status group, based on HL mean score, and the major statistical method used was a binary logistic regression.

Results

There were significant differences in alcohol and food addiction score between the two groups. The lower HL status group showed a 3.06 times higher risk of problematic drinking and a 2.44 times higher risk of food addiction compared with the higher HL status group.

Conclusions

The results of this study suggest the importance of HL in the prevention of alcohol and food addiction. HL information can be used to develop health education programs aimed at preventing addiction for college students.

Keywords:

• Addiction risk
• alcoholism
• college students
• food addiction
• healthy lifestyle

Conflict of interest disclosure

The authors have no conflicts of interest to report. The authors confirm that the research presented in this article met the ethical guidelines, including adherence to the legal requirements, of the Republic of Korea, and received approval from the institutional review board of S University.

Funding

The authors have no funding or conflicts of interest to disclose.