Prices, alcohol use initiation and heavy episodic drinking among Chilean youth.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To examine the association between alcohol prices and age of initiation of alcohol use and the association between age of alcohol use initiation and heavy episodic drinking (HED) among adolescents in Chile.

Design

We estimated discrete-time hazard models using retrospective data and generalized ordered probit models with repeated cross-sectional data.

Setting

Chile.

Participants

A total of 248 336 urban youth who attended secondary school between 2003 and 2015 and self-reported ever having tried alcohol.

Measurements

We created drinking histories from self-reported responses of age, age of alcohol use initiation and year/month of survey. From two self-reported responses, we created a four-category ordinal variable of heavy episodic drinking: none, o

SUBMITTER: Paraje GR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7891646 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature