Alcohol’s harm to others: An international collaborative project

Abstract

Callinan, S., Laslett, A., Rekve, D., Room, R., Waleewong, O., Benegal, V., Casswell, S., Florenzano, R., Hanh, H., Hanh, V., Hettige, S., Huckle, T., Ibanga, A., Obot, I., Rao, G., Siengsounthone, L., Rankin, G., & Thamarangsi, T. (2016). Alcohol’s harm to others: An international collaborative project. The International Journal Of Alcohol And Drug Research, 5(2), 25-32. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.7895/ijadr.v5i2.218Aims: This paper outlines the methods of a collaborative population survey project measuring the range and magnitude of alcohol’s harm to others internationally.Setting: Seven countries participating in the World Health Organization (WHO) and ThaiHealth Promotion Foundation (ThaiHealth) research project titled “The Harm to Others from Drinking,” along with two other countries with similar studies, will form the core of a database which will incorporate data from other countries in the future.Measures: The WHO-ThaiHealth research project developed two comparable versions of a survey instrument, both measuring harm from others’ drinking to the respondent and the respondent’s children.Design: Surveys were administered via face-to-face methods in seven countries, while similar surveys were administered via computer-assisted telephone interviews in two additional countries. Responses from all surveys will be compiled in an international database for the purpose of international comparisons.Discussion: Harms from the alcohol consumption of others are intertwined with the cultural norms where consumption occurs. The development of this database will make it possible to look beyond reports and analyses at national levels, and illuminate the relationships between consumption, harms, and culture.Conclusions: This database will facilitate work describing the prevalence, patterning, and predictors of personal reports of harm from others’ drinking cross-nationally.

The effects of others’ drinking on the harms to children in Thailand: Lessons from the WHO-ThaiHealth project

“…This study was a secondary data analysis research, which approved by the Human Research Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand (see Ethical consideration section for more details). It was part of a larger project titled “The Harm to Others from Drinking” by the “WHO-ThaiHealth project”; organised by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Thai Health Promotion Foundation (ThaiHealth) [ 24 ]. In Thailand, the cross-sectional study was conducted from four provinces (Chiang Mai, Khonkaen, Chonburi, and Surathani) in four regions, and Bangkok.…”

“…The participants were selected using a multi-stage cluster sampling technique. More details about the data collection can be found elsewhere [ 24 ].…”

Children’s experience of physical harms and exposure to family violence from others’ drinking in nine societies

“…The analyses include data from the WHO/Thai Health Harm from Others' Drinking project (Callinan et al, 2016;World Health Organization and ThaiHealth, 2016), the Australian Alcohol's Harm to Others study (Laslett et al, 2010;Laslett et al, 2011;Wilkinson et al, 2009), the Irish National Alcohol and Drug Survey (Hope, 2011) and the US National Alcohol's Harm to Others Survey (Kaplan et al, 2017). These datasets are archived as part of the Gender and Alcohol's Harm to Others (GENAHTO) project (S. C. Wilsnack, Greenfield, & Bloomfield, 2018).…”

“…The country studies and final subsamples included in the analysis are summarised in Table 1, with countries ordered by decreasing gross national income. Details of the methodology and data for each country's survey can be found elsewhere (Callinan et al, 2016;Hope, 2011;Kaplan et al, 2017;S. C. Wilsnack et al, 2018).…”

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“…In more recent years, this research has expanded to a number of low and middle -income countries outside the western world, thanks to an international research project jointly initiated by the WHO and Thai Health Foundation, Thailand under the guidance of a team of experienced researchers drawn from a number of countries. Low and middle -income countries covered by this study included Nigeria, Chile, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Lao PDR and Vietnam [1][2][3][4][5][6].…”