Lecturer Nitchakool Khunbutsri is a lecturer in the Department of Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing at the Faculty of Nursing, Khon Kaen University, Thailand.  She currently serves as a junior academic staff member. Her research interests include gender differences in psychiatric and mental health nursing, drug and alcohol addiction, adolescent behavior problems and alcohol consumption (in female adolescents particularly). She has experience in conducting nursing research in the mental health and psychiatric nursing fields and has served as a research assistant in projects receiving support from the Alcohol Research Center and the National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT). She is currently a doctoral student at Chiang Mai University, Thailand.