Sarah Callinan1, Katherine J Karriker-Jaffe2, Sarah C M Roberts3, Won Cook2, Sandra Kuntsche1, Ulrike Grittner4,5, Kathryn Graham6,7,8,9, Robin Room1,10, Kim Bloomfield11, Tom Greenfield2, Sharon Wilsnack12. 1. Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia. 2. Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute, Emeryville, CA, USA. 3. Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH), Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, University of California, San Francisco, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences. 4. Institute of Biometry and Clinical Epidemiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany. 5. Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Berlin, Germany. 6. Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto/London, Ontario, Canada. 7. Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 8. National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University, Western Australia. 9. School of Psychology, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Victoria, Australia. 10. Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs, Department of Public Health Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden. 11. Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research, Aarhus University, Denmark. 12. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to examine how gender, age and education, regional prevalence of male and female risky drinking and country-level economic gender equality are associated with harms from other people's drinking. METHODS: 24,823 adults in ten countries were surveyed about harms from drinking by people they know and strangers. Country-level economic gender equality and regional prevalence of risky drinking along with age and gender were entered as independent variables into three-level random intercept models predicting alcohol-related harm. FINDINGS: At the individual level, younger respondents were consistently more likely to report harms from others' drinking, while, for women, higher education was associated with lower risk of harms from known drinkers but higher risk of harms from strangers. Regional rate of men's risky drinking was associated with known and stranger harm, while regional-level women's risky drinking was associated with harm from strangers. Gender equality was only associated with harms in models in models that did not include risky drinking. CONCLUSIONS: Youth and regional levels of men's drinking was consistently associated with harm from others attributable to alcohol. Policies that decrease the risky drinking of men would be likely to reduce harms attributable to the drinking of others.
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to examine how gender, age and education, regional prevalence of male and female risky drinking and country-level economic gender equality are associated with harms from other people's drinking. METHODS: 24,823 adults in ten countries were surveyed about harms from drinking by people they know and strangers. Country-level economic gender equality and regional prevalence of risky drinking along with age and gender were entered as independent variables into three-level random intercept models predicting alcohol-related harm. FINDINGS: At the individual level, younger respondents were consistently more likely to report harms from others' drinking, while, for women, higher education was associated with lower risk of harms from known drinkers but higher risk of harms from strangers. Regional rate of men's risky drinking was associated with known and stranger harm, while regional-level women's risky drinking was associated with harm from strangers. Gender equality was only associated with harms in models in models that did not include risky drinking. CONCLUSIONS: Youth and regional levels of men's drinking was consistently associated with harm from others attributable to alcohol. Policies that decrease the risky drinking of men would be likely to reduce harms attributable to the drinking of others.
Authors: Oliver Stanesby; Sarah Callinan; Kathryn Graham; Ingrid M Wilson; Thomas K Greenfield; Sharon C Wilsnack; Siri Hettige; Hoang Thi My Hanh; Latsamy Siengsounthone; Orratai Waleewong; Anne-Marie Laslett Journal: Alcohol Clin Exp Res Date: 2018-07-23 Impact factor: 3.455