Alcohol, binge drinking and associated mental health problems in young urban Chileans.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To explore the link between alcohol use, binge drinking and mental health problems in a representative sample of adolescent and young adult Chileans.

Methods

Age and sex-adjusted Odds Ratios (OR) for four mental wellbeing measures were estimated with separate conditional logistic regression models for adolescents aged 15-20 years, and young adults aged 21-25 years, using population-based estimates of alcohol use prevalence rates from the Chilean National Health Survey 2010.

Results

Sixty five per cent of adolescents and 85% of young adults reported drinking alcohol in the last year and of those 83% per cent of adolescents and 86% of young adults reported binge drinking in the previous month. Adolescents who reported binging alcohol were also more likely, com

SUBMITTER: Mason-Jones AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4382020 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature