Alcohol use among young Australian adults in May-June 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic: a prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To estimate change in young people's alcohol consumption during COVID-19 restrictions in Australia in early-mid 2020, and test whether those changes were consistent by gender and level of consumption prior to the pandemic.

Design

Prospective longitudinal cohort.

Setting

Secondary schools in New South Wales, Tasmania and Western Australia.

Participants

Subsample of a cohort (n = 443) recruited in the first year of secondary school in 2010-11. Analysis data included three waves collected in September 2017-July 2018, September 2018-May 2019 and August 2019-January 2020), and in May-June 2020.

Measurements

The primary predictors were time, gender and level of consumption prior to the pandemic. Outcome variables, analysed by mixed-effects models, include

SUBMITTER: Clare PJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8212116 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature