Towards explaining time trends in adolescents' alcohol use: a multilevel analysis of Swedish data from 1988 to 2011.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Alcohol use has decreased among Swedish adolescents in the past few decades. We examined peer and parent factors (i.e. time spent with peers, time spent with parents and parental monitoring) that could contribute to explaining this trend by investigating their main effects and interaction effects with investigation years on alcohol use. We furthermore examined whether municipality-level socioeconomic conditions could contribute to explaining the trend.

Methods

We used data from a repeated cross-sectional study that took place eight times between 1988 and 2011. The study targeted all ninth grade students (15-16 years old) in Värmland County, Sweden. Adolescents (N = 22 257) reported their monthly alcohol use, time spent with peers and parents and parental monitorin

SUBMITTER: Kim Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6660113 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature