Does participation in voluntary organizations protect against risky alcohol and tobacco use? Findings from the UK panel data.

Maria K Pavlova, Matthias Lühr, Maike Luhmann

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Article in Preventive medicine reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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The social capital penalty paid by teetotallers.SSM - population health · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Maria K PavlovaInstitute of Psychology, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Jena, Am Steiger 3/1, 07743 Jena, Germany.

Matthias LührInstitute of Psychology, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Jena, Am Steiger 3/1, 07743 Jena, Germany.

Maike LuhmannFaculty of Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum, Universitätsstraße 150, 44801 Bochum, Germany.

University of Vechta · DERuhr University Bochum · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Drawing on the literature that posits heterogeneous influences of social networks on health behaviors, we tested whether different forms of participation in voluntary organizations predicted more or less alcohol and tobacco consumption over time. (Access preregistration at https://osf.io/guzem/) We used panel data from younger (aged 14-29 at baseline), middle-aged (aged 40-50), and older (aged 65-75) UK adults,

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Age groupsAlcohol drinkingCommunity participationPolitical activismSmokingSocial participation

Identifiers

PMID31193107

DOI10.1016/j.pmedr.2019.100885

PMCPMC6517570

OpenAlexW2943523355

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