Democracy in a bottle: Attitudes towards alcohol regulation in the post-communist Baltic Sea Region

Reitan, Therese

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“…Seven out of ten studies comparing responses across countries showed substantial differences in support for policies to change behaviour between countries, with differences apparent in studies using a range of methods [5,10,12,13,70,90,104]. Support for restrictive policies in the areas of smoking and diet was generally higher in more authoritarian countries than liberal democracies with, for example, 88% support in China for partially restrictive interventions or those making the behaviour more expensive, compared to 46% in the USA [5].…”

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“…In relation to awareness of harm, six out of eight studies found that respondents who were more aware of the harms associated with a behaviour were more likely to support policies to restrict that behaviour. For example, knowledge of harms increased support for policies designed to restrict smoking and second-hand smoke [55,77,90,95,110,117,118]. …”

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Public acceptability of government intervention to change health-related behaviours: a systematic review and narrative synthesis

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BackgroundGovernments can intervene to change health-related behaviours using various measures but are sensitive to public attitudes towards such interventions. This review describes public attitudes towards a range of policy interventions aimed at changing tobacco and alcohol use, diet, and physical activity, and the extent to which these attitudes vary with characteristics of (a) the targeted behaviour (b) the intervention and (c) the respondents.MethodsWe searched electronic databases and conducted a narrative synthesis of empirical studies that reported public attitudes in Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand towards interventions relating to tobacco, alcohol, diet and physical activity. Two hundred studies met the inclusion criteria.ResultsOver half the studies (105/200, 53%) were conducted in North America, with the most common interventions relating to tobacco control (110/200, 55%), followed by alcohol (42/200, 21%), diet-related interventions (18/200, 9%), interventions targeting both diet and physical activity (18/200, 9%), and physical activity alone (3/200, 2%). Most studies used survey-based methods (160/200, 80%), and only ten used experimental designs.Acceptability varied as a function of: (a) the targeted behaviour, with more support observed for smoking-related interventions; (b) the type of intervention, with less intrusive interventions, those already implemented, and those targeting children and young people attracting most support; and (c) the characteristics of respondents, with support being highest in those not engaging in the targeted behaviour, and with women and older respondents being more likely to endorse more restrictive measures.ConclusionsPublic acceptability of government interventions to change behaviour is greatest for the least intrusive interventions, which are often the least effective, and for interventions targeting the behaviour of others, rather than the respondent him or herself. Experimental studies are needed to assess how the presentation of the problem and the benefits of intervention might increase acceptability for those interventions which are more effective but currently less acceptable.

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Public acceptability of government intervention to change health-related behaviours: a systematic review and narrative synthesis

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“…Although there are few other studies examining the relative importance of various predictors of such attitudes, some studies indicate that support for restrictive measures are associated with belief in the harm caused by drinking (Holmberg & Weibull, 2013;Paglia & Room, 1999;Reitan, 2003;Slater et al, 2009). Moreover, a couple of studies have shown that policy attitudes are associated with belief in the effect of various measures on drinking level (Kaskutas, 1993;Paglia & Room, 1999), but we did not find any studies addressing the association with belief in the harmlimiting effect per se.…”

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Predicting attitudes toward a restrictive alcohol policy: Using a model of distal and proximal predictors.

Storvoll¹,

Moan²,

Rise³

2015

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

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“…. (Doucet et al, 2007;Holmberg & Weibull, 2013;Holmila et al, 2009;Reitan, 2003;Saglie & Nordlund, 1993;Wilkinson et al, 2009).Personal substance use is associated with less positive attitudes to intrusive policy measures on that substance (Holmila et al, 2009;Matheson et al, 2013;Osypuk & AcevedoGarcia, 2010;Wilkinson et al, 2009;Østhus, 2005). For instance, support for legalization of different drugs was associated with having used the drug in question (Lancaster, Sutherland, & Ritter, 2013).…”

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Overlap in attitudes to policy measures on alcohol, tobacco and illegal drugs

Lund¹,

Halkjelsvik²,

Storvoll³

2016

International Journal of Drug Policy

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Democracy in a bottle: Attitudes towards alcohol regulation in the post-communist Baltic Sea Region

Cited by 7 publications

References 51 publications

Public acceptability of government intervention to change health-related behaviours: a systematic review and narrative synthesis

Public acceptability of government intervention to change health-related behaviours: a systematic review and narrative synthesis

Predicting attitudes toward a restrictive alcohol policy: Using a model of distal and proximal predictors.

Overlap in attitudes to policy measures on alcohol, tobacco and illegal drugs

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