Association between cigarette use and adolescents’ behavior

OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of cigarette use among adolescents and to identify associated health risk behaviors. METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study with a representative sample, composed of 1059 adolescents between 13 and 19 years old, enrolled in primary and secondary public schools of Olinda, Pernambuco, in 2014. Information was obtained through self-administered questionnaires (validated version of YRBS 2007). Cigarette experimentation was defined as smoking at least once in life. Adolescents who smoked at least one day within 30 days prior to the survey were considered current smokers. Most students were female and 16 years old or older. RESULTS: Almost 30% used it in life and about 10% smoked within the 30 days before the survey. Suicidal ideation (PR = 1.51, 95%CI 1.25–1.82), alcohol use (PR = 1.41, 95%CI 1.03–1.92), marijuana (PR = 1.64, 95%CI 1.37–1.96), excessive alcohol consumption (PR = 1.57, 95%CI 1.15–2.16) and sexual experience (PR = 1.78, 95%CI 1.43–2.21) have increased the risk of using cigarettes. Feelings of sadness (PR = 1.70, 95%CI 1.22–2.36), alcohol use (PR=2.40, 95%CI 1.12–5.12), excessive alcohol consumption (PR = 2.5, 95% CI 1.24–5.38), marijuana (PR = 2.31, 95%CI.57–3.39) and cocaine (PR = 1.99, 95%CI.32–3.01) increased the risk of cigarette use within the 30 days before the survey. CONCLUSIONS: Cigarette use among adolescents from Olinda was high, being considered higher than the national prevalence. Possible factors associated with cigarette use were drug use (alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine) and behaviors related to sexual experience, feelings of sadness and suicidal ideation.

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Alcohol consumption among students and its relationship with nutritional intake: a cross-sectional study

Public Health Nutrition ◽

10.1017/s1368980020004450 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-12

Author(s):

Elisabet R Hillesund ◽

Nina C Øverby ◽

Erlend L Valen ◽

Dagrun Engeset

Keyword(s):

Alcohol Consumption ◽

Alcohol Use ◽

Alcohol Intake ◽

Alcoholic Beverages ◽

Inverse Association ◽

Excessive Alcohol Consumption ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Consumption Level ◽

Micronutrient Intake ◽

Excessive Alcohol

Abstract Objective: Excessive alcohol consumption during reproductive years may impact the integrity of developing eggs and sperm, potentially affecting the life-long health of future children. Inadequate diets could aggravate these preconception effects of alcohol. The aim of the present study was to assess the prevalence of excessive alcohol consumption and explore whether weekly alcohol intake is associated with energy and nutrient intake and adequacy of micronutrient intake among students. Design: Cross-sectional survey using a validated and reproducibility-tested FFQ. Setting: University of Agder, Norway, in 2018. Participants: 622 students (71 % female). Results: More than 80 % reported having consumed alcoholic beverages the past 4 weeks. One-third of men and 13 % of women exceeded the upper recommended limit of 14 UK alcohol units/week. An inverse association between increasing alcohol intake and energy-adjusted micronutrient intake was evident for thiamine, phosphate, Fe, Zn and Se in men, and for vitamin A, β-carotene, vitamin E and C, thiamine, vitamin B6, folate, P, Mg, K, Fe, Zn and Cu in women. A substantial proportion had vitamin D, folate, Fe and I intakes below average requirement regardless of alcohol consumption level. The combination of prevalent alcohol use, decreasing micronutrient density of diet across alcohol consumption level and a high probability of micronutrient inadequacy indicate reason for concern in a preconception public health perspective. Conclusions: Our findings call for investigations into young adults’ knowledge, reflections and beliefs regarding diet and alcohol use to understand how these behaviours could be improved ahead of parenthood.

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Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test-consumption Predicts the Risk of Excessive Alcohol Consumption After Liver Transplantation

Transplantation Proceedings ◽

10.1016/j.transproceed.2019.02.031 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 51 (6) ◽

pp. 1934-1938

Author(s):

Takuya Yano ◽

Masahiro Ohira ◽

Ryoko Sakamoto ◽

Aiko Narisada ◽

Seiichi Shimizu ◽

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Keyword(s):

Liver Transplantation ◽

Alcohol Consumption ◽

Alcohol Use ◽

Alcohol Use Disorders ◽

Excessive Alcohol Consumption ◽

Identification Test ◽

Excessive Alcohol

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Is carbohydrate-deficient transferrin in serum useful for detecting excessive alcohol consumption in hypertensive patients?

Clinical Chemistry ◽

10.1093/clinchem/40.11.2057 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 40 (11) ◽

pp. 2057-2063 ◽

Cited By ~ 26

Author(s):

B Fagerberg ◽

S Agewall ◽

A Berglund ◽

M Wysocki ◽

P A Lundberg ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Alcohol Consumption ◽

Alcohol Intake ◽

High Alcohol ◽

Clinical Value ◽

Excessive Alcohol Consumption ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Hypertensive Patients ◽

Carbohydrate Deficient Transferrin ◽

Excessive Alcohol ◽

High Alcohol Intake

Abstract The aim of this study was to examine the diagnostic usefulness of carbohydrate-deficient transferrin (CDT) in serum in a cross-sectional study of 439 treated hypertensive men. We related the results to alcohol intake by questionnaire and to biochemical and hemodynamic measurements known to reflect excessive alcohol consumption. The diagnostic sensitivity and the specificity for high alcohol intake (> or = 24 g/day of ethanol) were 44% and 87%, respectively. The group with reported high alcohol intake (n = 32) was characterized by hemodynamic and biochemical changes typical of alcohol abuse. The corresponding profile for the patients with increased serum CDT concentrations (n = 70) was different in several respects, indicating a considerable number of false-positive tests. We conclude that serum CDT determination had low sensitivity and specificity for excessive alcohol consumption in this group of hypertensive patients. The results illustrate the importance of evaluating new laboratory methods in unselected patient populations before drawing any conclusions about their clinical value.

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Cultural Differences in Tweeting about Drinking Across the US

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph17041125 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (4) ◽

pp. 1125 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Salvatore Giorgi ◽

David B. Yaden ◽

Johannes C. Eichstaedt ◽

Robert D. Ashford ◽

Anneke E.K. Buffone ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Alcohol Consumption ◽

Alcohol Use ◽

Drunk Driving ◽

Driving Under The Influence ◽

Behavioral Risk ◽

Excessive Alcohol Consumption ◽

Linguistic Markers ◽

Community Project ◽

The Us ◽

Excessive Alcohol

Excessive alcohol use in the US contributes to over 88,000 deaths per year and costs over $250 billion annually. While previous studies have shown that excessive alcohol use can be detected from general patterns of social media engagement, we characterized how drinking-specific language varies across regions and cultures in the US. From a database of 38 billion public tweets, we selected those mentioning “drunk”, found the words and phrases distinctive of drinking posts, and then clustered these into topics and sets of semantically related words. We identified geolocated “drunk” tweets and correlated their language with the prevalence of self-reported excessive alcohol consumption (Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System; BRFSS). We then identified linguistic markers associated with excessive drinking in different regions and cultural communities as identified by the American Community Project. “Drunk” tweet frequency (of the 3.3 million geolocated “drunk” tweets) correlated with excessive alcohol consumption at both the county and state levels (r = 0.26 and 0.45, respectively, p < 0.01). Topic analyses revealed that excessive alcohol consumption was most correlated with references to drinking with friends (r = 0.20), family (r = 0.15), and driving under the influence (r = 0.14). Using the American Community Project classification, we found a number of cultural markers of drinking: religious communities had a high frequency of anti-drunk driving tweets, Hispanic centers discussed family members drinking, and college towns discussed sexual behavior. This study shows that Twitter can be used to explore the specific sociocultural contexts in which excessive alcohol use occurs within particular regions and communities. These findings can inform more targeted public health messaging and help to better understand cultural determinants of substance abuse.

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Financial reimbursement - Irrelevant for GPs' readiness to implement brief intervention to reduce alcohol consumption? A cross-sectional vignette study.

10.21203/rs.3.rs-30107/v2 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Thomas Fankhaenel ◽

Katrin Schulz ◽

Lars Eric Petersen ◽

Andreas Klement ◽

Thomas Frese

Keyword(s):

Alcohol Consumption ◽

Brief Intervention ◽

Pharmacological Intervention ◽

Screening And Brief Intervention ◽

Excessive Alcohol Consumption ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Convenience Sample ◽

Vignette Study ◽

Main Effect ◽

Excessive Alcohol

Abstract BACKGROUND: General Practitioners' (GPs) readiness to implement screening and brief intervention (SBI) to treat patients with excessive alcohol consumption is low. Several studies identified crucial barriers such as insufficient financial reimbursement. In contrast to the barriers-account, we assume that low implementation readiness of GPs may be less attributed to external barriers but rather more so to inherent characteristics of SBI. To test our assumption, we conducted a vignette study assessing the GPs' readiness to implement SBI in comparison to a pharmacological intervention also designed for the treatment of excessive drinkers in relation to standard or above-standard financial reimbursement. According to our hypothesis GPs should be less ready to implement SBI regardless of financial reimbursement. METHODS: A convenience sample of GPs was recruited to answer the questionnaire. To assess the GPs' implementation readiness a 4-item 6-point Likert scale was developed and pretested. RESULTS: One hundred forty GPs completed the questionnaire. GPs were more ready to implement the pharmacological intervention than SBI, F (1,132)=27.58, p >.001 (main effect). We found no effect for financial reimbursement, F (1,132)=3.60, ns , and no interaction effect, F (1,132)=2.20, ns . CONCLUSIONS: Further research should investigate more thoroughly the crucial characteristics of SBI to initiate a modification process finally leading to more effective primary care dependency prevention.

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The prevalence of excessive alcohol consumption and the acceptability of brief advice in a sexual health clinic: cross sectional survey

Sexually Transmitted Infections ◽

10.1136/sti.2003.008938 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 80 (5) ◽

pp. 416-417 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

M J Crawford

Keyword(s):

Alcohol Consumption ◽

Sexual Health ◽

Health Clinic ◽

Cross Sectional Survey ◽

Excessive Alcohol Consumption ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Excessive Alcohol ◽

Brief Advice

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Microstructural White Matter Alterations in Men With Alcohol Use Disorder and Rats With Excessive Alcohol Consumption During Early Abstinence

JAMA Psychiatry ◽

10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2019.0318 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 76 (7) ◽

pp. 749 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Silvia De Santis ◽

Patrick Bach ◽

Laura Pérez-Cervera ◽

Alejandro Cosa-Linan ◽

Georg Weil ◽

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Keyword(s):

White Matter ◽

Alcohol Consumption ◽

Alcohol Use ◽

Alcohol Use Disorder ◽

Excessive Alcohol Consumption ◽

Excessive Alcohol

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The Relationship Between Excessive Alcohol Consumption and Alcohol Use Disorders According to DSM-IV and DSM-5

Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research ◽

10.1111/acer.12248 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 38 (1) ◽

pp. 249-256 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Marlous Tuithof ◽

Margreet ten Have ◽

Wim van den Brink ◽

Wilma Vollebergh ◽

Ron de Graaf

Keyword(s):

Alcohol Consumption ◽

Alcohol Use ◽

Alcohol Use Disorders ◽

Excessive Alcohol Consumption ◽

Dsm 5 ◽

Excessive Alcohol ◽

Dsm Iv ◽

The Relationship

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Alcohol Consumption and Its Effects on Health among Young Adults–Windhoek, Namibia

10.47363/jcet/2020(1)104 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-4

Author(s):

Sheehama J ◽

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Nghitongo A ◽

Anyolo F ◽

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...

Keyword(s):

Young Adults ◽

Alcohol Consumption ◽

Social Consequences ◽

The Body ◽

Health Concern ◽

Excessive Alcohol Consumption ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Attitudes And Practices ◽

Excessive Alcohol ◽

Knowledge Attitudes And Practices

The misuse of alcohol has pervasive and potentially detrimental effects on the body, in society and the economy at large. The rise thereof and its adverse effects have become a public health concern. Various studies done have indicated that excessive alcohol consumption leads to a great deal of health and social consequences. The main purpose of the study was to determine the knowledge, attitudes and practices of young adults on alcohol use and its effects on their health. The study applied a quantitative approach, using a cross-sectional, descriptive and exploratory design to obtain data from 383 participants aged 18–30 years. A cluster random sampling method was employed, data was compiled and analysed using SPSS version 25.

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