School factors and student drinking in high schools: a cross-sectional study of school policies and party regulation.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:The effectiveness of school alcohol polices may be affected by the degree of strictness of rules, how they are implemented and enforced, students' perception of the rules and the consequences of breaking them. The aim of the study was to test the hypothesis that more liberal school alcohol policies, lack of knowledge of the alcohol policy, lower prices of alcohol at school parties, and liberal party regulation were associated with more drinking among high school students. METHODS:Participants were high school students (n = 68,898), participating in the Danish National Youth Study in 2014. Data came from questionnaires answered by high school students and school headmasters. Zero-inflated negative binominal regression with clustering of schools (n = 117) was used to assess the as

SUBMITTER: Pisinger VSC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7027101 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature