Transitions in alcohol use over time: a survival analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The current study examined the predictors of the onset of alcohol use as well as predictors of remission and relapse, both from heavy drinking and from alcohol dependence. Similarities and differences in both clinical and psychosocial predictors across the transitions were examined.

Methods

A sample of men from the Vietnam Era Twin Registry (N = 1769) completed an assessment of lifetime drinking history, which allowed age markers for starting and stopping different drinking patterns. The men also completed various assessments regarding personality, alcohol motives, and psychiatric diagnoses. Survival analyses were used to examine the predictors of the three transitions of onset, remission, and relapse for the phenotypes of heavy drinking and of alcohol dependence,

SUBMITTER: Koenig LB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7607670 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature