Health and household environment factors linked with early alcohol use in adolescence: a record-linked, data-driven, longitudinal cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Early alcohol use has significant association with poor health outcomes. Individual risk factors around early alcohol use have been identified, but a holistic, data-driven investigation into health and household environmental factors on early alcohol use is yet to be undertaken.

Objectives

This study aims to investigate the relationship between preceding health events, household exposures and early alcohol use during adolescence using a two-stage data-driven approach.

Methods

In stage one, a study population (N = 1,072) were derived from the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) Wales (born between 2000-2002). MCS data were first linked with electronic-health records. Factors associated with early (<=eleven years old) alcohol use were identified using feature sel

SUBMITTER: Bandyopadhyay A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9284510 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature