Economic strain, social relations, gender, and binge drinking in Moscow

Jukkala, Tanya; Mäkinen, Ilkka; Kislitsyna, Olga; Ферландер, Сара; Vågerö, Denny

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.10.017

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“…In line with previous research, our research identified age as influential in terms of mothers' alcohol use [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]. Mothers linked youth with heavy alcohol consumption and frequent small quantities of alcohol use were considered indicative of older age groups.…”

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Patterns and Perceptions of Maternal Alcohol Use among Women with Pre-School Aged Children: A Qualitative Exploration of Focus Group Data

Baker¹

2017

J Addict Res Ther

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Background: Quantitative studies of women's alcohol use suggest that social advantage is associated with increased frequency of alcohol use and disadvantage with increased quantities. Very few studies have examined patterns among mothers; even fewer have explored mothers' perceptions and understandings of their alcohol use. We examine how mothers describe and make sense of their patterns of alcohol use in the context of advantaged and disadvantaged circumstances.

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“…There is evidence that problematic alcohol use (DSM-III-R, CAGE criteria) and binge drinking (>4 drinks, >60 g alcohol per occasion) among women is negatively associated with age [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]. Social gradients in alcohol use have also been identified amongst women [11] and young adults [12].…”

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Patterns and Perceptions of Maternal Alcohol Use among Women with Pre-School Aged Children: A Qualitative Exploration of Focus Group Data

Baker¹

2017

J Addict Res Ther

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“…This method is considered to be more reliable than using crime data (LaFree, 1999;Pridemore, 2003). Because alcohol consumption (including heavy drinking) is less prevalent among the elderly population in both countries (Jukkala et al, 2008;Kerr et al, 2009;Pomerleau et al, 2005), the analyses were restricted to the age range 15-64 years. Another reason for restricting the age span is that the accuracy of the Russian cause of death classifi cation is markedly poorer for older ages (Meslé, 2007).…”

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Alcohol and Homicide in Russia and the United States: A Comparative Analysis

Landberg

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2011

J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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ABSTRACT. Objective: The object of this study was to perform a comparative analysis of the aggregate relationship between alcohol and homicide in Russia and in the United States. The comparison was based on the magnitude of the alcohol effect, the alcohol attributable fraction (AAF), and the degree to which total consumption could account for trends in homicide. Method: We analyzed total and sex-specifi c homicide rates for the age groups 15-64 years, 15-34 years, and 35-64 years. The study period was 1959-1998 for Russia and 1950 for the United States. For the United States, alcohol consumption was gauged by sales of alcohol; for Russia, estimated unrecorded consumption was included as well. The data were analyzed through autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) modeling. Results: The results show that, for Russia as well as for the United States, a 1-L increase in consumption was associated with an increase in homicides of about 10%, although the absolute effect was markedly larger in Russia because of differences in homicide rates. The AAF estimates suggested that 73% and 57% of the homicides would be attributable to alcohol in Russia and in the United States, respectively. Most of the temporal variation in the Russian homicide rate could be accounted for by the trend in drinking, whereas the U.S. trend in total alcohol consumption had a more limited ability to predict the trend in homicides. Conclusions: We conclude that the role of alcohol in homicide seems to be larger in Russia than in the United States. (J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs, 72, 723-730, 2011)

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“…It seems that males were more vulnerable to the stressful experience resulting from abrupt socioeconomic changes throughout the 1990s. Several studies have suggested that men in Russia, as a result of traditional masculine norms, are more prone to respond to stressful situations with maladaptive behavior such as increased alcohol consumption, while women have a more adaptive stress response [19,20]. In particular, Cockerham et al found that in Russia psychological distress promote frequent drinking among men, but not among women, even though women reported significantly more distress [22].…”

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Population Drinking and Gender Gap in Suicide Mortality in Russia

Разводовский

2017

Alcoholism and psychiatry research

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Across most countries, suicide rates are significantly higher for men compared to women, while women typically have higher rate of suicide attempts. The gender difference in the suicide rates is particularly large in the Eastern European countries. There is suggestive evidence of a crucial role of alcohol in explanation of this phenomenon. In present study we will test the hypothesis of the close aggregate level link between alcohol consumption and gender difference in suicide mortality rates in Russia using data on sex-specific suicide rates and alcohol consumption per capita between 1965 and 2015. Time-series analytical modeling techniques (ARIMA) were used to examine the relation between the gender gap in suicide mortality and trends in alcohol consumption per capita. According to the results of time-series analysis, alcohol consumption is a statistically significant factor associated with gender gap in suicide mortality in Russia, implying that a 1-litre increase in consumption per capita is associated with an increase in the difference between male and female suicide mortality rates by 8.3%. The results of the analysis also suggest that 66 % of the difference in suicide mortality between males and females in Russia could be attributed to alcohol. The outcomes of this study provide indirect support for the hypothesis that alcohol is a major contributor to the high gender gap in suicide mortality and its dramatic fluctuations in Russia during the last few decades.

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Economic strain, social relations, gender, and binge drinking in Moscow

Cited by 66 publications

References 40 publications

Patterns and Perceptions of Maternal Alcohol Use among Women with Pre-School Aged Children: A Qualitative Exploration of Focus Group Data

Patterns and Perceptions of Maternal Alcohol Use among Women with Pre-School Aged Children: A Qualitative Exploration of Focus Group Data

Alcohol and Homicide in Russia and the United States: A Comparative Analysis

Population Drinking and Gender Gap in Suicide Mortality in Russia

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