Alcohol on adolescent and health impacts

Alcohol consumption is currently one of the adolescents problems whose numbers tend to increase every years. The result is that in addition can compromise the security of the environment such as the rise of juvenile gangs, sexual misconduct, rampant of thuggish could also impact on the health of adolescents. The purpose of this study was to determine the factors associated with alcohol consumption and its impact on the health of adolescents in Palu City, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. This study used mixed research method were quantitative and qualitative research. Samples for this study were 65 teens, domiciled in the 8th Neighbourhood, 8th Hamlet, BTN Citra Pesona Indah, Talise Urban Village, Subdistrict Mantikulore Central Sulawesi Province, Indonesia, whereas qualitative sample amounted to 5 informants that teens who still consumed alcohol. The results showed a significant relationship between motive curious with alcohol consumption (P = 0.001), the opportunity with alcohol consumption (P = 0.001), inferiority with the alcohol consumption (P = 0.001), and emotional with alcohol consumption (P = 0.001). All of 5 informants said that they felt the effects for consumedalcohol such as decreased body resistance, easily hurted, lazy woke up, often felt asleep in class, vomited and coughed up blood. The conclusion was that there was influence between the motives of curiosity, inferiority, and emotional occasion for alcohol consumption and its impact on the health of adolescents in Palu.