ArticleThe Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine2021
The Effect of Social and Stress-Related Factors on Alcohol Use Among College Students During the Covid-19 Pandemic.
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- Substance Use Among Youth During the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Systematic Review.Current psychiatry reports · 2022Pooled it
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- Factor structure for measures of bystander likelihood, barriers, and actions to prevent problematic alcohol use among college students.Journal of American college health : J of ACH · 2025Article
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- Increased alcohol use to cope with COVID-19-related anxiety one year into the coronavirus pandemic.Nordisk alkohol- & narkotikatidskrift : NAT · 2023Article
- Stressors and symptoms associated with a history of adverse childhood experiences among older adolescents and young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic in Manitoba, Canada.Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice · 2023Article
- Health-related behavioral changes during the COVID-19 pandemic. A comparison between cohorts of French and Italian university students.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- How perceived risk influences college students' preventive behavior: Novel data of COVID-19 campus lockdown from Wuhan, China.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Perceived stress, mental health symptoms, and deleterious behaviors during the transition to college.PloS one · 2023Article
- Access and efficacy of university mental health services during the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- The Impact of COVID-19 on the Health-Related Behaviours, Mental Well-Being, and Academic Engagement of a Cohort of Undergraduate Students in an Irish University Setting.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Prevalence, correlates, and behavioral outcomes of alcohol gifting in China.BMC public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
purposeThe aim of this article is to study how Covid-19 stress-related factors and changes in social engagement during the pandemic contributed to changes in alcohol use among first-year college students.
methodsWe used data on 439 first-year students (ages 18-20) at a large public university in North Carolina both before (October 2019 to February 2020) and after (June/July 2020) the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. We evaluated changes in prevalence and days of alcohol use and binge drinking. We estimated the associations between Covid-19 stressors/stress (work reductions, health, distanced learning difficulties, perceived stress) and social engagement (perceived social support from friends, social isolation, and social distancing) after controlling for students' pre-pandemic alcohol use, social engagement, and demographic characteristics.
resultsWe found that the prevalence of alcohol use and binge drinking in the past 30 days decreased from 54.2% to 46.0% and 35.5% to 24.6%, respectively; days of use did not change significantly. The decreases were primarily associated with reductions in social engagement. Among Covid-19 stressors/stress, only challenges with distance learning were associated with higher alcohol use among those who were already drinking prior to the pandemic. Drinking increased more among those who endorsed using substances to cope, while drinking was not associated with resilient coping.
conclusionsUnless new drinking habits are formed during the pandemic, decreases in alcohol use among college students are unlikely to be sustained as social distancing measures are removed. Colleges may want to target interventions to students who have responded to stress with increased alcohol use, partly by addressing difficulties with distance learning.
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