Changes in alcohol consumption according to the duration of unemployment: prospective findings from the French CONSTANCES cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To prospectively examine the association between the duration of unemployment among job seekers and changes in alcohol use in a year.

Design

A prospective study.

Setting

French population-based CONSTANCES cohort.

Participants

We selected 84 943 participants from the CONSTANCES cohort included between 2012 and 2019 who, at baseline and 1-year follow-up, were either employed or job-seeking.

Outcome measures

Multinomial logistic regression models computed the odds of reporting continuous no alcohol use, at-risk alcohol use, increased or decreased alcohol use compared with being continuously at low risk and according to employment status. The duration of unemployment was self-reported at baseline; thus, the employment status at 1-year follow-up wa

SUBMITTER: El Haddad R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10660887 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature