SynthesisBMC public health2018
Constructions of alcohol consumption by non-problematised middle-aged drinkers: a qualitative systematic review.
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- Normalization of alcohol misuse and alcohol-related harms: a mixed methods analysis exploring alcohol misuse, morbidity, and healthcare engagement in people experiencing homelessness.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2025Article
- 'I don't consider cancer when I'm grabbing the beer': Discursive strategies used by midlife New Zealanders to undermine alcohol-cancer risks.Health promotion international · 2025Article
- Associations between alcohol control law enforcement and online purchasing on regular alcohol consumption among Thai men: a nationwide cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Strategies to support midlife women to reduce their alcohol consumption: an Australian study using human-centred design.Health promotion international · 2023Article
- A Brief Intervention for Improving Alcohol Literacy and Addressing Harmful Alcohol Use Among Women Attending an Australian Breast Screening Service (Health4her): Protocol for a Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2023Article
- Exploring the significance of relationality, care and governmentality in families, for understanding women's classed alcohol drinking practices.Social theory & health : STH · 2022Article
- Producing co-production: Reflections on the development of a complex intervention.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2020Article
- What does it mean to conduct participatory research with Indigenous peoples? A lexical review.BMC public health · 2019Review
- Understanding practitioner perspectives of youth healthcare using thematic and lexical analyses.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundCurrent research into alcohol consumption focuses predominantly on problematic drinkers and populations considered likely to engage in risky behaviours. Middle-aged drinkers are an under-researched group, despite emerging evidence that their regular drinking patterns may carry some risk.
methodsWe searched Scopus, Ovid Medline, and Ovid PsycInfo for peer-reviewed, English-language publications appearing prior to 31 December 2015 and relating to the construction of alcohol consumption by middle-aged non-problematised drinkers. Thirteen papers were included in our thematic analysis.
resultsMiddle-aged non-problematised drinkers constructed their drinking practices by creating a narrative of normative drinking via discourses of gender, identity, play, and learning to drink. They also used drinking norms to construct their gender and identity. Health was not identified as a significant consideration for the population of interest when constructing alcohol consumption, except where drinking behaviours were likely to harm another.
conclusionsThese results suggest that public health campaigns aimed at reducing alcohol consumption may be more effective if they focus on unacceptable drinking behaviours instead of personal health outcomes.
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