High-intensity drinking and hours spent drinking.

ABSTRACT:

Background

High-intensity drinking (HID) is associated with negative consequences, but it remains unclear whether a time qualifier (i.e., time spent drinking) is needed to identify individuals at highest risk. To improve the measurement and conceptualization of HID, we examined the utility of adding a time qualifier to define what constitutes an occasion of HID using repeated daily surveys in a sample of young adults.

Methods

Participants were selected from a nationally representative sample of 12th-grade students in the United States who participated in the Monitoring the Future (MTF) study in Spring 2018. In 2019 and 2020, young adults (at modal ages 19-20) responded to annual and daily (14 consecutive days per year) online surveys about their alcohol use.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Patrick ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10792248 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature