Heterogeneous dose-response and college student drinking: examining problem risks related to low drinking levels.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Previous research demonstrates that the number of problems related to each additional drink consumed on any drinking occasion, dose-response, varies non-linearly across average drinking quantities. We test predictions from a dynamic model of drinking behavior that locates this heterogeneity in drinkers' efforts to equilibrate between costs and benefits of use.

Design

Equations derived from the theoretical model are used to assess dose-response across drinking quantity subgroups using censored regressions.

Setting

Fourteen California, USA, college campuses surveyed from 2003 to 2011.

Participants

A total of 37 762 undergraduate college students 18 years of age and older.

Measurements

Drinking patterns, five physiological problems relat

SUBMITTER: Gruenewald PJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4437634 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature