Changes in alcohol consumption in the 50- to 64-year-old European economically active population during an economic crisis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The aim was to compare alcohol drinking patterns in economically active people aged 50-64 years before the last economic crisis (2006) and during the crisis (2013).

Methods

Cross-sectional study with data from 25 479 economically active people aged 50-64 years resident in 11 European countries who participated in wave 2 or wave 5 of the SHARE project (2006 and 2013). The outcome variables were hazardous drinking, abstention in previous 3 months and the weekly average number of drinks per drinker. The prevalence ratios of hazardous drinking and abstention, comparing the prevalence in 2013 vs. 2006, were estimated with Poisson regression models with robust variance, and the changes in the number of drinks per week with Poisson regression models.

Results

The p

SUBMITTER: Bosque-Prous M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5881701 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature