Alcohol problem recognition and help seeking in adolescents and young adults at varying genetic and environmental risk.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Alcohol use disorder symptoms frequently occur in adolescents and younger adults who seldom acknowledge a need for help. We identified sociodemographic, clinical, and familial predictors of alcohol problem recognition and help seeking in an offspring of twin sample.

Method

We analyzed longitudinal data from the Children of Alcoholics and Twins as Parents studies, which are combinable longitudinal data sources due to their equivalent design. We analyzed respondents (n=1073, 56.0% of the total sample) with alcohol use disorder symptoms at the baseline interview. Familial characteristics included perceptions of alcohol problems and help seeking for alcohol problems within the immediate family and a categorical variable indicating genetic and environmental risk. We

SUBMITTER: Glass JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4761262 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature