Sex differences in alcohol misuse and estimated blood alcohol concentrations among emergency department patients: implications for brief interventions.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The objective was to assess the relationship between alcohol use and misuse and patient sex among emergency department (ED) patients by comparing self-reported estimates of quantity and frequency of alcohol use, estimated blood alcohol concentrations (eBACs) when typically drinking and during heavy episodic drinking (binging), and alcohol misuse severity, to understand sex differences in alcohol use and misuse for this population.

Methods

The authors surveyed a random sample of nonintoxicated, subcritically ill or injured, 18- to 64-year-old English- or Spanish-speaking patients on randomly selected dates and times at two EDs during July 2009 and August 2009. Participants self-administered a questionnaire about their self-reported alcohol use during a typical mont

SUBMITTER: Trillo AD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3424395 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature