ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022
Sober Curiosity: A Qualitative Study Exploring Women's Preparedness to Reduce Alcohol by Social Class.
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- Psychosocial factors associated with alcohol use in lower socioeconomic position populations: a scoping review.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Exploring Ways to Reduce Heavy Drinking by Increasing Hope Among Midlife Women in Australia: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Cancer Risk Perceptions in South Australia: A Descriptive Analysis of a Population Survey.Health promotion journal of Australia : official journal of Australian Association of Health Promotion Professionals · 2025Article
- Reducing Heavy Drinking Through the "Sober Curious" Movement in Australia: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Drinking and pleasure: Interdisciplinarity points the way forward.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2025Article
- What role does social class play in the impact of social environment on residents' health.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Using a Sober Curious Framework to Explore Barriers and Facilitators to Helping Sexual Minority Women Reduce Alcohol-Related Harms: Protocol for a Descriptive Study.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Sexual minority women's perceptions of sober curiosity: Lessons learned from a US pilot study.Drug and alcohol review · 2025Article
- A Hope for Hope: Refocusing Health Promotion on Hopefulness to Reduce Alcohol Consumption and Breast Cancer.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
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- Strategies to support midlife women to reduce their alcohol consumption: an Australian study using human-centred design.Health promotion international · 2023Article
- Sober curiosity among LGBTQ+ women and non-binary people in Aotearoa New Zealand.Women's health (London, England)Article
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10 authors at 6 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundUrgent action is required to identify socially acceptable alcohol reduction options for heavy-drinking midlife Australian women. This study represents innovation in public health research to explore how current trends in popular wellness culture toward 'sober curiosity' (i.e., an interest in what reducing alcohol consumption would or could be like) and normalising non-drinking could increase women's preparedness to reduce alcohol consumption.
methodsQualitative interviews were undertaken with 27 midlife Australian women (aged 45-64) living in Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney in different social class groups (working, middle and affluent-class) to explore their perceptions of sober curiosity.
resultsWomen were unequally distributed across social-classes and accordingly the social-class analysis considered proportionally the volume of data at particular codes. Regardless, social-class patterns in women's preparedness to reduce alcohol consumption were generated through data analysis. Affluent women's preparedness to reduce alcohol consumption stemmed from a desire for self-regulation and to retain control; middle-class women's preparedness to reduce alcohol was part of performing civility and respectability and working-class women's preparedness to reduce alcohol was highly challenging. Options are provided for alcohol reduction targeting the social contexts of consumption (the things that lead midlife women to feel prepared to reduce drinking) according to levels of disadvantage.
conclusionOur findings reinstate the importance of recognising social class in public health disease prevention; validating that socially determined factors which shape daily living also shape health outcomes and this results in inequities for women in the lowest class positions to reduce alcohol and related risks.
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