The impact of stressful life events on excessive alcohol consumption in the French population: findings from the GAZEL cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Major life changes may play a causative role in health through lifestyle factors, such as alcohol. The objective was to examine the impact of stressful life events on heavy alcohol consumption among French adults.

Methods

Trajectories of excessive alcohol consumption in 20,625 employees of the French national gas and electricity company for up to 5 years before and 5 years after an event, with annual measurements from 1992. We used repeated measures analysis of time series data indexed to events, employing generalized estimating equations.

Results

For women, excessive alcohol use increased before important purchase (p = 0.021), children leaving home (p<0.001), and death of loved ones (p = 0.03), and decreased before widowhood (p = 0.015); in the year stradd

SUBMITTER: Tamers SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3903768 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature