Cross-border policy effects on alcohol outcomes: drinking without thinking on the u.s.-Mexico border?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Rates of alcohol-related outcomes are sensitive to policy differences in politically distinct, adjacent territories. Factors that shape these cross-border effects, particularly when the policy differences are longstanding, remain poorly understood. We compared the ability of 2 classes of variables with theoretical relevance to the U.S.-Mexico border context-bar attendance and alcohol-related social-cognitive variables-to explain elevated drinking on the U.S. side of the border relative to other areas of the United States.

Methods

Data were collected from multistage cluster samples of adult Mexican Americans on and off the U.S.-Mexico border (current drinker N = 1,351). Structural equation models were used to test drinking context (frequency of bar attendance) and

SUBMITTER: Mills BA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4245391 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature