Healthy Student Research

How To : Group Project

We created a questionaire to find out the drinking habits of first year students. We will then use this information to help us design the drink aware beer mats. We have questioned 20 of our classmates and other first year students at college and these are the results we collected:

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Which of these alcoholic drinks gives you the worst hangovers?
Tequila Slammers	x						x		x
Sambuca			x	x	x			x		x
Red Wine										x
White Wine		x				x
Beer
What would you consider to be the best hangover cure?	Toast & tea	apple juice	cup of tea	coffee and cigarettes	tea and food	sprite, cigarette, tea	smoothies	greasy food and a long lie in	sleep	food & milkshake
On an average night out during freshers, how much alcohol do you consume?	5 beers	small bottle of vodka, small bottle of southern comfort, 2 pitchers, 4 shots	2 shots sambuca, 2 shots apple sourz, 2 vodka cokes, 1 litre puff pop	half a bottle of wine and about 6 jack daniels and coke	3 double vodkas	half a litre of vodka, 3 jagerbombs, vodka coke	30ml vodka, 6 shots, 10 beers	3 strongbows, jagerbombs, shots, vodka & mixers	1 bottle of wine, 2 shots, 4 jagerbombs	lots of whatevers cheap
On average, how many nights a week would you go out during freshers?	3	3	4	5	2	2	2	3	4	5
When drinking, do you honestly know where your own limit is and when to stop?	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	no	no	yes	yes	no
How many calories do you think you consume from alcohol on a night out?	a lot	too many	1000	1000	no idea	over 1000	50,000	1500	2000	1000+
Have you ever suffered from memory loss the morning after a night out of heavy drinking?	yes	no	yes	yes	no	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Which of these alcoholic drinks gives you the worst hangovers?
Tequila Slammers				x			x
Sambuca	x				x
Red Wine			x	x	x	x		x		x
White Wine	x
Beer		x				x			x
What would you consider to be the best hangover cure?	cheese and lots of water	orange juice and full english breakfast	sleep and water	fry up	BLT	water, alkazeltzer, bacon	sleep	half cooked/ half raw egg	fanta fruit twist	full english breakfast
On an average night out during freshers, how much alcohol do you consume?	10-15 pints of beer	16 pints	4 G&Ts, jagerbombs, shots	4 - 5 pints, vodka mixers	4 or 5 cans of beer, 2 vodkas, a few jagerbombs	6 or 7 bottles beer, 5 or 6 vodka mixers	7 vk’s	5 or 6 malibu and cokes	several beers	10 drinks and shots varied
On average, how many nights a week would you go out during freshers?	2 or 3	3	4	3 - 4	6	4	2	2 - 3	1	3
When drinking, do you honestly know where your own limit is and when to stop?	most of the time	yes	no	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	sort of
How many calories do you think you consume from alcohol on a night out?	2000	over daily allowance	havent a clue	1000’s	not sure	approx. 3000	200	don’t know	3000	no idea
Have you ever suffered from memory loss the morning after a night out of heavy drinking?	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	no	no	yes	yes

From these results, we have worked out the most common answers which will be used to create some of the beer mats. 

Here are the most common things people said in response to the questions:

Worst hangover drink	Sambuca
Best hangover cure	cup of tea & cigarette
Alcohol consumption	(to be calculated later)
Nights out a week in freshers	3
Knowing your limit	yes
Calories consumed	1000
Memory loss?	yes

This Information will help to form the wording used on the mats.

 How to : Calorie Research

The last bit of research for the beer mat design wording comes from calculating the average calorie intake from alcohol for students. As part of the questionnaire, we asked students to list roughly what they would drink on an average night out during freshers week. We then used the Alcohol calorie counter to calculate how many calories each student would approximately consume, then took the average from all 20 of the results. 
(http://www.drinkaware.co.uk/tips-and-tools/drink-diary/)


Here are the results with the average:

Questionnaire number	Number of calories
1	1221
2	1970
3	589
4	944
5	312
6	1336
7	1962
8	1612
9	1222
10	2442
11	3907
12	1278
13	1651
14	1305
15	1309
16	723
17	2442
18	2412
19	1245
20	674
Average:	1527.8

The average comes out as being 1527.8 (which we will round up to 1528). Although this is not entirely accurate for students everywhere, the questionnaires were answered by students at the college that we are presenting to, so the statement is targeting them specifically. This is handy as the students feedback from crits has helped to sway our idea along this path.