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ArticleAddictive behaviors2018

Age at drinking onset, age at first intoxication, and delay to first intoxication: Assessing the concurrent validity of measures of drinking initiation with alcohol use and related problems.

Meghan E Morean, Alexa L'Insalata, Ellyn R Butler, Avalon McKee, Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin

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Article in Addictive behaviors, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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20citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Meghan E MoreanOberlin College, Department of Psychology, 120 West Lorain Street, Oberlin, OH 44074, USA; Yale School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, 34 Park St., New Haven, CT 06519, USA. Electronic address: meghan.morean@oberlin.edu.
Alexa L'InsalataOberlin College, Department of Psychology, 120 West Lorain Street, Oberlin, OH 44074, USA. Electronic address: Alinsatala@stanford.edu.
Ellyn R ButlerOberlin College, Department of Psychology, 120 West Lorain Street, Oberlin, OH 44074, USA. Electronic address: Ellyn.Butler@oberlin.edu.
Avalon McKeeOberlin College, Department of Psychology, 120 West Lorain Street, Oberlin, OH 44074, USA.
Suchitra Krishnan-SarinYale School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, 34 Park St., New Haven, CT 06519, USA.
Oberlin College · USYale University · US

Funding

Translational Technologies CoreP50AA012870 · NIAAA · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI John H. Krystal · 2001 to 2026
$43.7M
NIAAA NIH HHS P50 AA012870
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionDrinking at an early age (AO) and quickly progressing to drinking to intoxication (Delay=Age of Intoxication[AI]-AO) confer risk for alcohol use and alcohol-related problems. However, inconsistencies exist in the literature, which may reflect the use of different definitions of AO and AI. We evaluated whether 1) defining AO as age at first sip of alcohol (AO sip) versus age at which at least one standard drink was consumed (AO drink); and 2) defining AI as age at first "drunk" (AI drunk) versus age at first binge episode (≥5 standard drinks consumed; AI binge) resulted in different self-reported ages or differentially predicted drinking outcomes.

methods248 high school students (53.6% male; 16.50[1.19] years; 71.4% White) completed anonymous surveys assessing alcohol use.

resultsParticipants reported a younger AO (sip) than AO (drink) and a younger AI (drunk) than AI (binge), resulting in significantly different Delay values for the four AO-AI pairings. Univariate general linear models indicated that AO-Delay pairings accounted for more variance in maximum drinks and alcohol-related problems than did the individual AO and AI variables. Pairings comprising AO (drink) and Delay (drink-binge) and AO (sip) and Delay (sip-binge), respectively, uniquely accounted for variance in both maximum drinks and problems.

conclusionsClearly defining AO and AI using objective definitions that reflect specific amounts of alcohol (e.g., first sip; first standard drink; first binge) appears to outperform subjective definitions of alcohol use (e.g., first drunk).

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AdolescentAge FactorsAge of OnsetAlcohol DrinkingAlcoholic IntoxicationBinge DrinkingConnecticutFemaleHumansLinear ModelsMaleReproducibility of ResultsUnderage DrinkingAdolescentsAge of onsetAlcoholDelay to intoxicationUnderage drinking

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PMID29304425
PMCPMC5807182
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