ArticleDrug and alcohol review2016
Parental drinking and adverse outcomes in children: A scoping review of cohort studies.
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69 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 151 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Moderators and mediators of outcomes of parents with substance use problems: further evaluation of the Parents under Pressure programme.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2021Trial
- The association of maternal alcohol use and paraprofessional home visiting with children's health: A randomized controlled trial.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2019Trial
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- Associations Between Parental Alcohol Use and Parenting Practices: A Systematic Review.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- A socioecological examination of father alcohol use in Kenya: Motivation, consequences, and barriers to care.Global public health · 2025Article
- The dynamics of stress experiences of students with relatives with addiction problems: a longitudinal qualitative study.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Article
- A Cognitive Model of Alcohol Use Among Taiwanese Adolescents: The Influence of Alcohol Expectancies and Drinking Refusal Self-Efficacy.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Psychosocial factors associated with alcohol use in lower socioeconomic position populations: a scoping review.BMC public health · 2025Article
- How many children have parents with gambling disorder - a Germany-based estimate.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Mapping the journey of families navigating problem drinking in South Asia: a scoping review.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Parental Alcohol Use Predicts Neural Emotion Reactivity and Substance Use Intentions in Early Adolescence.The Journal of early adolescence · 2025Article
- Early and risky adolescent alcohol use independently predict alcohol, tobacco, cannabis and other drug use in early adulthood in Ireland: a longitudinal analysis of a nationally representative cohort.BMC public health · 2025Article
- The Association Between Childhood Experience of Living with a Heavy Drinker and Self-Rated Mental Health in the Adult General Population.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The interrelation of parental alcohol use, parental practices, and binge drinking among secondary and high school students: analysis of a national survey.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Harms to children from men's heavy drinking: A scoping review.International journal of alcohol and drug research · 2024Article
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Abstract
INTRODUCTION AND
aimsThere is a growing interest in measuring alcohol's harms to people other than the drinker themselves. 'Children of alcoholics' and foetal alcohol spectrum disorder have received widespread attention. Less is known about how children are affected by post-natal exposure to parental drinking other than alcohol abuse/dependence. In this scoping review, we aim to assemble and map existing evidence from cohort studies on the consequences of parental alcohol use for children, and to identify limitations and gaps in this literature. DESIGN AND
methodsSystematic review methods were used. Electronic databases were searched (1980 to October 2013) and a total of 3215 abstracts were screened, 326 full text papers examined and 99 eligible for inclusion according to selection criteria including separation of exposure and outcome measurement in time and report of a quantitative effect size.
resultsThe main finding is the large literature available. Adolescent drinking behaviour was the most common outcome measure and outcomes other than substance use were rarely analysed. In almost two of every three published associations, parental drinking was found to be statistically significantly associated with a child harm outcome measure. Several limitations in the literature are noted regarding its potential to address a possible causal role of parental drinking in children's adverse outcomes. DISCUSSION AND
conclusionsThis study identifies targets for further study and provides a platform for more targeted analytic investigations which ascertain risk of bias, and which are capable of considering the appropriateness of causal inferences for the observed associations. [Rossow I, Felix L, Keating P, McCambridge J. Parental drinking and adverse outcomes in children: A scoping review of cohort studies. Drug Alcohol Rev 2016;35:397-405].
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