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Trial reportDrug and alcohol dependence2018

A daily diary study of stressful and positive events, alcohol use, and addiction severity among heavy drinking sexual minority men.

Ethan H Mereish, Alexis Kuerbis, Jon Morgenstern

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Drug and alcohol dependence, 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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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  13. Promoter Specific Methylation ofFrontiers in genetics · 2022
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  14. Minority stress and alcohol use in sexual minority women's daily lives.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Ethan H MereishDepartment of Health Studies, American University, Gray Hall 119, 4400 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20016, USA. Electronic address: mereish@american.edu.
Alexis KuerbisSilberman School of Social Work, Hunter College at City University of New York, 2180 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10035, USA. Electronic address: ak1465@hunter.cuny.edu.
Jon MorgensternNorthwell Health, 1010 Northern Blvd. Suite 311, Great Neck, NY 11021, USA. Electronic address: jmorgenste@northwell.edu.

Funding

Naltrexone and CBT for problem drinkingR01AA015553 · NIAAA · NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE DBA RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE, INC · PI MORGENSTERN, JON · 2006 to 2010
$3.0M
Minority Stress Reactivity and Hazardous DrinkingK08AA025011 · NIAAA · AMERICAN UNIVERSITY · PI MEREISH, ETHAN H. · 2017 to 2021
$846k
NIAAA NIH HHS K08 AA025011NIAAA NIH HHS L30 AA024298NIAAA NIH HHS R01 AA015553
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe purpose of this study is to examine the conditions under which daily stressful and positive events are associated with alcohol use among heavy drinking sexual minority men (SMM). Specifically, we examined the moderating effects of two indicators of alcohol addiction severity (i.e., alcohol dependence severity and negative drinking consequences) on the associations between daily stressful events and alcohol use and between daily positive events and alcohol use among heavy drinking SMM. PROCEDURES: Secondary data analyses were performed using data from a randomized controlled trial of heavy drinking and treatment seeking SMM who were assigned male at birth (N = 200). Participants responded to a daily survey delivered via interactive voice recording (IVR). The first seven days of the IVR were analyzed for this study.

resultsWhile accounting for treatment condition, weekday/weekend, and baseline drinking, stressful and positive events were both associated with increased daily drinking; however, indicators of alcohol addiction severity moderated these associations. For heavy drinkers with high alcohol addiction severity, daily stressful events were not associated with alcohol use, and daily positive events were associated with increased alcohol use. In contrast, for heavy drinkers with low alcohol addiction severity, daily stressful events were associated with less drinking, and daily positive events were not associated with alcohol use.

conclusionsThe findings of this study indicate that alcohol addiction severity plays a key role in explaining when daily stressful or positive events are associated with daily alcohol use among heavy drinking SMM.

Indexed as

Medical RecordsSeverity of Illness IndexSexual and Gender MinoritiesAdultAlcohol DrinkingAlcoholic IntoxicationAlcoholismBehavior, AddictiveHumansMaleMiddle AgedStress, PsychologicalAddiction severityDaily drinkingPositive eventsSexual minority menStress

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PMID29665493
PMCPMC6063512

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