Drinking in context: the influence of gender and neighbourhood deprivation on alcohol consumption

Matheson, Flora I.; White, Heather L.; Moineddin, Rahim; Dunn, James R.; Glazier, Richard H.

doi:10.1136/jech.2010.112441

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“…37 Depression is also more prevalent among women, and therefore could potentially explain the sex differences we found. However, the presence of depressive symptoms, defined as a score of greater than or equal to 16 on the Centre for Epidemiological Studies-Depression Scale, was not independently associated with NPH, suggesting that it may not be a significant mediator.…”

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“…34 (More recent manuscripts have heeded this recommendation and have found qualitatively different effects for men and women, although the directions have been inconsistent). [35][36][37][38][39] In the review by Karriker-Jaffe, consistent associations between neighborhood disadvantage and heavy drinking were reported. 34 More recent studies not included in this review have corroborated this finding; although the frequency of alcohol use generally increases in higher SES neighborhoods, binge drinking, heavy alcohol use, and other risky drinking behaviors tend to decrease, 35,40 although the evidence is mixed.…”

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Neighborhood Psychosocial Hazards and Binge Drinking among Late Middle-Aged Adults

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Older adults may be more vulnerable to negative health effects from alcohol as they age. Distress and adverse neighborhood conditions that provoke distress may influence drinking behavior. Using baseline data from the Baltimore Memory Study, a cohort study of adults aged 50-70 years living in 65 Baltimore City neighborhoods, we investigated the association between neighborhood psychosocial hazards (NPH) and the number of binge drinking days in the past month among non-abstainers (N0645). We used negative binomial regression with generalized estimating equations to estimate the relative number of binge drinking days per month associated with a one standard deviation increase in NPH score. Residing in neighborhoods with more psychosocial hazards was independently associated with more binge drinking for females, but not for males. For females, each one standard deviation increase in NPH score was associated with a 1.52 relative risk of binge drinking (95 % confidence interval, 1.10, 2. 10) in the adjusted model. The findings were robust to a sensitivity analysis in which we used the average number of drinks per drinking occasion as an alternative outcome. Our findings provide evidence linking adverse neighborhood conditions with alcohol consumption in non-abstaining late middle-aged women, and suggest that late middle-aged men and women may have different reactions to adverse residential neighborhoods.

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Neighborhood Psychosocial Hazards and Binge Drinking among Late Middle-Aged Adults

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“…Two Finnish studies reported positive associations between neighborhood disadvantage and alcohol use among male youth but negative associations for female youth Rimpelä, 1996, 1997). A recent Canadian study also reported a positive association between neighborhood disadvantage and weekly volume for adult men but no signifi cant association for women (Matheson et al, 2012). In contrast, a Scottish study found no interactions of gender and neighborhood disadvantage when predicting heavy drinking or weekly volume (Ecob and Macintyre, 2000).…”

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Neighborhood Disadvantage and Adult Alcohol Outcomes: Differential Risk by Race and Gender

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Mulia

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ABSTRACT. Objective:We examined whether relationships of neighborhood disadvantage with drinker status, heavy drinking, alcoholrelated consequences, and dependence differed by race and/or gender. We hypothesized that neighborhood disadvantage would be negatively associated with drinker status but positively associated with heavy and problem drinking, with more pronounced relationships among African American and Hispanic men than other groups. Method: Data consisted of nationally representative, randomly selected, cross-sectional samples of White, African American, and Hispanic adults (N = 13,864, of which 52% were female; with 7,493 drinkers, of which 48% were female) from the 2000 and 2005 National Alcohol Surveys merged with 2000 Census data. Analyses included logistic and linear regression using weights to adjust for sampling and nonresponse. Results: Hypotheses were partly supported. Bivariate relationships were in the expected direction. Multivariate main effect models showed that neighborhood disadvantage was signifi cantly associated with increased abstinence and marginally associated with increased negative consequences experienced by drinkers, but race/ethnicity and gender modifi ed these associations. Disadvantage was signifi cantly associated with increased abstinence for all groups except African American and Hispanic men. Among drinkers, disadvantage was signifi cantly negatively associated with heavy drinking by Whites but signifi cantly positively associated with heavy drinking by African Americans. Disadvantage also was associated with elevated alcohol-related consequences for White women and African American men. Conclusions: The fi ndings have implications for the development of targeted interventions to reduce the unequal impacts of neighborhood disadvantage on alcohol outcomes. Future research should examine the contribution of multiple types of disadvantage to heavy drinking and alcohol problems. (J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs, 73, 865-873, 2012)

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“…Socio-demographic variables associated with mental health utilization [24] are included as control variables in the analysis-marital status, educational attainment, annual household income, ethno-racial origin, immigration status and urban or rural location. We also adjust for several health behaviours known to differ by gender and which are associated with health utilization, including smoking status, drinking level and self-reported health [30][31][32][33].…”

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Gender differences in mental health service utilization among respondents reporting depression in a national health survey

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This study examined whether people who selfreported depression sought mental health treatment in the year after being interviewed, and how gender affected utilization. Depression data were obtained from the Canadian Community Health Survey (2000-01), and linked to medical records in Ontario (n = 24,677). Overall, women had higher rates of mental health service utilization, but there were no gender differences in rates of specialist care. The gender difference in mental health contact was greater for those without depression, as opposed to those with depression. Among those without depression, women were significantly more likely than men to use mental health services; however, rates were similar for women and men with depression. This finding suggests that men may be more likely than women to delay seeing a doctor for minor mental health concerns, but will seek help once a problem reaches a threshold.

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Drinking in context: the influence of gender and neighbourhood deprivation on alcohol consumption

Cited by 58 publications

References 49 publications

Neighborhood Psychosocial Hazards and Binge Drinking among Late Middle-Aged Adults

Neighborhood Psychosocial Hazards and Binge Drinking among Late Middle-Aged Adults

Neighborhood Disadvantage and Adult Alcohol Outcomes: Differential Risk by Race and Gender

Gender differences in mental health service utilization among respondents reporting depression in a national health survey

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