Alcohol use and motives for drinking across the menstrual cycle in a psychiatric outpatient sample.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Females who misuse alcohol experience high rates of negative physical and mental health consequences. Existing findings are inconsistent but suggest a relationship between ovarian hormones and alcohol use. We aim to clarify how alcohol use and drinking motives vary across the menstrual cycle in female psychiatric outpatients using the luteinizing hormone (LH)-confirmed cycle phase.

Methods

Daily self-reports (n = 3721) were collected from 94 naturally cycling females, recruited for past-month suicidal ideation, during the baseline phase of three parent clinical trials between February 2017 and May 2022. Multilevel logistic and linear models estimated the relationship between the cycle phase (with LH-surge confirmed ovulation) and daily alcohol use or drinking moti

SUBMITTER: Barone JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9975029 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature