[Age-specific trends in risky drinking in Germany: collectivity or polarisation?]

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

According to Skog's collectivity of drinking cultures theory, changes in alcohol consumption in all groups and strata of the population take place as parallel displacement in the distribution of consumption. The aims of the present paper are (1) to illustrate temporal trends in risky drinking and episodic heavy drinking by age and gender and (2) to examine whether the trends are parallel in all age groups ("collectivity") or diverge between age groups ("polarisation").

Methods

The data are based on nine surveys of the Epidemiological Survey of Addiction (ESA) between 1995 and 2018. Risky drinking was defined as daily consumption of more than 12 g (for women) or 24 g (for men) of pure alcohol and episodic heavy drinking as consumption of five or more glasses of a

SUBMITTER: Kraus L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8187186 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature