Family transitions and changes in drinking from adolescence through mid-life.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To examine how changes in social roles, particularly in the family, predict rises and falls in alcohol consumption from ages 16 to 50 years.

Design

Longitudinal data from the National Child Development Study.

Setting

The birth cohort includes 99% of British infants born in 1 week in 1958. Participants After initial assessment of 17,415 infants, the cohort was interviewed at ages 7, 11, 16, 23, 33, 42, 46, and 50. This study uses the six adolescent to adult waves (n = 7212 women, 7377 men).

Measurements

Alcohol use [i.e. quantity consumed in past week and heavy daily drinking), symptoms of problem drinking (i.e. Cut-down, Annoyed, Guilt, Eye-opener (CAGE)] and social roles (i.e. union formation, parenthood and employment).

Findings

Estimates from fix

SUBMITTER: Staff J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3937856 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature