ArticleAlcoholism, clinical and experimental research2014
Cross-border policy effects on alcohol outcomes: drinking without thinking on the u.s.-Mexico border?
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- Differences by gender at twelve months in a brief intervention trial among Mexican-origin young adults in the emergency department.Journal of ethnicity in substance abuseTrial
- Contexts of Drinking- and Alcohol-Related Problems Among Whites and Hispanics on and off the US/Mexico border in California.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2024Article
- Drinking in Mexico by Whites and Hispanics on and off the US/Mexico border in California.Journal of ethnicity in substance abuse · 2023Article
- Trends and correlates of spatially aggregated alcohol-involved crashes among Whites and Hispanics in California.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2022Article
- Factors Explaining Variation in Alcohol Use Disorder Prevalence Across Border and Nonborder Communities in Texas.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2016Article
- Alcohol Use and Related Problems Along the United States-Mexico Border.Alcohol research : current reviews · 2016Review
- Disentangling contributions of bar attendance, drinking, and other factors to elevated acute alcohol problems on the U.S.-Mexico border.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2015Article
- Binge Drinking and Perceived Neighborhood Characteristics Among Mexican Americans Residing on the U.S.-Mexico Border.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2015Article
- Prevalence and correlates of arrests or stops for drunk driving on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.Journal of ethnicity in substance abuseArticle
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Abstract
backgroundRates of alcohol-related outcomes are sensitive to policy differences in politically distinct, adjacent territories. Factors that shape these cross-border effects, particularly when the policy differences are longstanding, remain poorly understood. We compared the ability of 2 classes of variables with theoretical relevance to the U.S.-Mexico border context-bar attendance and alcohol-related social-cognitive variables-to explain elevated drinking on the U.S. side of the border relative to other areas of the United States.
methodsData were collected from multistage cluster samples of adult Mexican Americans on and off the U.S.-Mexico border (current drinker N = 1,351). Structural equation models were used to test drinking context (frequency of bar attendance) and 6 different social-cognitive variables (including alcohol-related attitudes, norms, motives, and beliefs) as mediators of border effects on a composite drinking index.
resultsThe border effect on drinking varied by age (with younger adults showing a stronger effect), consistent with previous findings and known risk factors in the region. Contrary to theoretical expectations, 6 different social-cognitive variables-despite relating strongly with drinking-were comparable in border and nonborder areas (within and across age) and played no role in elevated drinking on the border. Conversely, elevated drinking among border youth was mediated by bar attendance. This mediated moderation effect held after adjusting for potential sociodemographic and neighborhood-level confounders.
conclusionsIncreased drinking among U.S.-Mexico border youth is explained by patterns of bar attendance, but not by more permissive alcohol-related social-cognitive variables in border areas: Border youth attend bars and drink more than their nonborder counterparts, despite having comparable alcohol-related beliefs, attitudes, norms, and motives for use. Alcohol's heightened availability and visibility on both sides of the border may create opportunities for border youth to drink that otherwise would not be considered.
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