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Article de Périodique
Decline in age of drinking onset in Ireland, gender and per capita alcohol consumption (2011)
Auteur(s) :
B. P. SMYTH ;
A. KELLY ;
G. COX
Article en page(s) :
478-484
Domaine :
Alcool / Alcohol
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Discipline :
EPI (Epidémiologie / Epidemiology)
Thésaurus géographique
IRLANDE
Thésaurus mots-clés
ALCOOL
;
AGE
;
INITIATION
;
CONSOMMATION
;
ETUDE RETROSPECTIVE
;
EVOLUTION
;
COHORTE
Résumé :
AIMS: We sought to examine the fall in age of first drinking in Ireland and to determine whether there were gender differences. We also aimed to determine whether there was a relationship between the per capita alcohol consumption evident when people entered later adolescence and their age of drinking onset. METHODS: Information on age of first drinking was based on retrospective recall of 9832 interviewees from the pooled samples obtained from two population surveys. We examined the change in age of first drinking, by birth cohort and by gender, utilizing survival analysis. We utilized Pearson's correlation to explore the relationship between median age of first drinking within each birth cohort and the mean per capita alcohol consumption when that birth cohort was aged 16 years. RESULTS: The average age of first drinking fell steadily and significantly across birth cohorts from the late 1930s to the early 1990s. This change was significantly greater in females. Per capita alcohol consumption was very highly negatively correlated with the median age at which each birth cohort commenced drinking (r = -0.96, P
Affiliation :
Department of Public Health & Primary Care, Trinity College Dublin, Addiction Service, Bridge House, Cherry Orchard Hospital, Dublin, Ireland