The overall alcohol consumption prevalence among youth men was 39.3%.The present study is higher than studies were done in Ethiopian undergraduate Aksum university students (28.4%)(11) and research done in Washington(18).In other words, the magnitude of alcohol consumption is consistent with Kenyan nearly conducted studies(21) and Hawassa (40.8%)(13).
This study also showed that being married, unemployed, being poorer, lack of awareness of HIV AIDS, Orthodox religious follower, age of the respondents (20–24 years of age) are factors correlated with alcohol consumption.
Our study is higher than studies conducted elsewhere(11, 18) this might be due to the difference in sample size, lower accessibility of alcohol and being busy of clinical attachment and have better knowledge on the impact of alcohol consumption. However, our study is consistent with that of others studies(13, 21). This might be due to all nations and nationalities of Ethiopian are residents of Hawassa and relatively same socio-economic status respectively.
Muslim religious followers are protective to alcohol consumption, the present study is supported by other studies done(22, 23), this is due to highly religious learning started at childhood and their different books teach them not to drink and of course, drinking is evil behavior. nevertheless, Orthodox religion is significantly associated with alcohol consumption; this might be because of alcohol is usually used after fasting, holy service and bible and tradition of Christian think that wine is gift from God, even though drunkenness and intoxification are forbidden. Youth men aged 20–24 are increases alcohol consumption; this is experienced for different reasons; for instance, to stay with their friends to share dormitory while schooling is far from home plus peer pressure is a huge burden. Those youth men have no restrictions to consume alcohol and have higher opportunity. Families and relatives who have an alcohol consumption history or alcohol use disorder unable to provide adequate care for their son, they don’t know with whom he plays. Being poorer is associated with increased alcohol consumption which is supported with studies done(24). Youth men with a lack of resource experienced low self- esteem, odd behave, feels despair, and feels anxious and depressed. So then to overcome such a psychological problem, they usually consume alcohol. Even though alcohol consumption calms anxiety initially, in the long run, it escalates anxiety and leads to an AUD. Furthermore, poorer alcohol consumers engaged mainly on homemade alcohol with a lower cost. Being married is inversely associated with alcohol consumption which is supported by studies done in (17, 25–27). Here are some of the factors, like reduced social relationships with others, reduction in disposable income that is associated with forming a new household may also encourage quitting on drinking, and wives attendance. There might be different reasons why unemployed youth men have a positive association with alcohol consumption. Such as, they have enough free time, stress and also economic deficiency. In turn stress may increase unemployment and alcohol consumption. Those who have no awareness of HIV AIDS were more likely to consume alcohol than have awareness, which is correlated with study(28), this might be due to misperception of the consequence of AC and bad health effects.
Strength And Limitation Of The Study
This study included a relatively huge dataset, which was representative of the general population and examined the impact of some very pertinent determinants of youth's alcohol consumption. Use of secondary data meant that we had no control over the selection of variables, quality of data, and the measurement of indicators. The information in the survey was self-reported, so there might be social desirability bias.