Trauma, PTSD, and binge and hazardous drinking among women and men: findings from a national study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine whether trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are differentially associated with binge and hazardous patterns of drinking among women and men.

Methods

Secondary analysis of the Wave 2 National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC); the analytic sample included 31,487 respondents (54.6% female) without past-year alcohol abuse/dependence. Participants' trauma-exposure/PTSD status was characterized as: no exposure to trauma in lifetime (reference), lifetime trauma exposure, PTSD before past-year, or past-year PTSD. Past-year binge and hazardous drinking were examined with multinomial logistic regression models (past-year abstinence was modeled as the non-event); models included the main effects of trauma-exposure/PTSD sta

SUBMITTER: Kachadourian LK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4094352 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature