ArticleAddiction (Abingdon, England)2018
Estimating mental health impacts of alcohol's harms from other drinkers: using propensity scoring methods with national cross-sectional data from the United States.
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- Furthering understanding of the scope and variation of alcohol and drug harms to others: Using qualitative discussion groups to inform survey development.International journal of alcohol and drug research · 2024Article
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- Associations between alcohol use disorder polygenic score and remission in participants from high-risk families and the Indiana Biobank.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2024Article
- Can alcohol policy prevent harms to women and children from men's alcohol consumption? An overview of existing literature and suggested ways forward.The International journal on drug policy · 2023Review
- Sibling alcohol use disorder is associated with increased risk for suicide attempt.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2022Article
- Association between Exposure to Alcohol's Harm to Others and Health-Related Quality of Life in Korean Adults: A Nationwide Population-Based Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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- Alcohol use and risk of vehicle accidents: cross-sectional study in the city of São Paulo, Brazil.Sao Paulo medical journal = Revista paulista de medicina · 2020Article
- Association between state-level alcohol availability and taxation policies on the prevalence of alcohol-related harms to persons other than the drinker in the USA, 2000-2015.Drug and alcohol review · 2020Article
- Gender Equality, Drinking Cultures and Second-Hand Harms from Alcohol in the 50 US States.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Self-reported harm from others' alcohol, cigarette and illegal drug use in Norway.Nordisk alkohol- & narkotikatidskrift : NAT · 2019Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
aimsAlcohol's harms to others (AHTO) may cause substantial distress, particularly when harms are perpetrated by close others. One challenge to identifying causal impacts is that people harmed by drinkers differ in many ways from those not so harmed, so our aim was to assess mental health in relation to two serious types of AHTO, financial harm and assault by someone who had been drinking, using propensity score (PS) weighting to adjust for potentially confounding differences.
designCross-sectional, nationally representative, random sample of adults.
settingUnited States.
participantsSeventy-six respondents reporting financial harm compared with 4625 with no past-year AHTO; 192 respondents reporting assault compared with 4623 with no past-year AHTO. MEASUREMENTS: Predictors were reported exposure to financial problems due to someone's drinking and assault by someone who had been drinking. Mental health outcomes were quality of life, distress and positive affect. Confounders included family history of alcohol problems, child physical/sexual abuse, substance use/dependence, impacts of recent economic recession, racial/ethnic discrimination, poverty and other demographics.
resultsIn double-robust PS weighted models for financial harm, there were associations with reduced quality of life (B = -0.28, P = 0.02) and increased distress [adjusted odds ratio (aOR) = 4.69, P < 0.001], and for assault by a partner or family member, there were associations with increased distress (aOR = 2.23, P = 0.09). For assault by a friend or stranger, none of the associations are statistically significant after PS weighting (all P > 0.10).
conclusionsFinancial troubles due to someone else's drinking and assaults perpetrated by drinking intimates (spouses, other partners or family members) are associated with reduced mental health.
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