On the emerging paradigm of drinking patterns and their social and health consequences

Rehm, Jürgen; Ashley, Mary Jane; Room, Robin; Single, Eric; Bondy, Susan; Ferrence, Roberta; Giesbrecht, Norman

doi:10.1111/j.1360-0443.1996.tb02265.x

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“…Frequency of heavy drinking or quantity per occasion measures have been recognized as critical for drinking pattern measurement for many years [72,107], but the appreciation of their importance in the last decade represents a paradigmatic shift [108], with even newer mor-tality studies finding drinking pattern effects on all-cause mortality [109,110]. The somewhat problematic term 'binge drinking' has become synonymous with heavy quantity consumption following the college studies of Wechsler and colleagues [111].…”

Section: Heavy Drinking Per Occasion or Daymentioning

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Alcohol measurement methodology in epidemiology: recent advances and opportunities

2008

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Aim To review and discuss measurement issues in survey assessment of alcohol consumption for epidemiological studies. Methods The following areas are considered: implications of cognitive studies of question answering such as self-referenced schemata of drinking, reference period and retrospective recall, as well as the assets and liabilities of types of current (e.g. food frequency, quantity-frequency, graduated frequencies and heavy drinking indicators) and life-time drinking measures. Finally we consider units of measurement and improving measurement by detailing the ethanol content of drinks in natural settings. Results and conclusions Cognitive studies suggest inherent limitations in the measurement enterprise, yet diary studies show promise of broadly validating methods that assess a range of drinking amounts per occasion; improvements in survey measures of drinking in the life course are indicated; attending in detail to on-and off-premise drink pour sizes and ethanol concentrations of various beverages shows promise of narrowing the coverage gap plaguing survey alcohol measurement.

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Section: Heavy Drinking Per Occasion or Daymentioning

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Alcohol measurement methodology in epidemiology: recent advances and opportunities

2008

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“…Patterns of drinking may refer to several aspects of drinking behaviour, including the frequency of drinking occasions, variations in drinking over time and the number and characteristics of 'risky' drinking occasions. It also includes the settings where drinking takes place, the activities associated with drinking, the personal characteristics of the drinkers and their drinking companions, the types of beverage consumed, and the clusters of drinking norms and behaviours often referred to as 'drinking cultures' (Rehm et al 1996).…”

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Survey of alcohol-related presentations to Australasian emergency departments

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Objective: To determine the proportion of alcohol‐related presentations to emergency departments (EDs) in Australia and New Zealand, at a single time point on a weekend night shift. Design, setting and participants: A point prevalence survey of ED patients either waiting to be seen or currently being seen conducted at 02:00 local time on 14 December 2013 in 106 EDs in Australia and New Zealand. Main outcome measures: The number of ED presentations that were alcohol‐related, defined using World Health Organization ICD‐10 codes. Results: At the 106 hospitals (92 Australia, 14 New Zealand) that provided data, 395 (14.3%; 95% CI, 13.0%–15.6%) of 2766 patients in EDs at the study time were presenting for alcohol‐related reasons; 13.8% (95% CI, 12.5%–15.2%) in Australia and 17.9% (95% CI, 13.9%–22.8%) in New Zealand. The distribution was skewed left, with proportions ranging from 0 to 50% and a median of 12.5%. Nine Australian hospitals and one New Zealand hospital reported that more than a third of their ED patients had alcohol‐related presentations; the Northern Territory (38.1%) and Western Australia (21.1%) reported the highest proportions of alcohol‐related presentations. Conclusions: One in seven ED presentations in Australian and New Zealand at this 02:00 snapshot were alcohol‐related, with some EDs seeing more than one in three alcohol‐related presentations. This confirms that alcohol‐related presentations to EDs are currently underreported and makes a strong case for public health initiatives.

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“…6,7 In general, we would expect changes in drinking patterns over time to be linked to changes in acute and chronic health and behavior problems, 8 although empirical relationships tend to vary according to the type of problem. 9 In the United States, both liver cirrhosis rates 10 and alcohol-related traffic fatalities 11 have declined steadily since about 1970, a decade before the downturn in overall consumption levels.…”

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A 10-year national trend study of alcohol consumption, 1984-1995: is the period of declining drinking over?

Greenfield

Midanik²

2000

Am J Public Health

145

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On the emerging paradigm of drinking patterns and their social and health consequences

Cited by 166 publications

References 28 publications

Alcohol measurement methodology in epidemiology: recent advances and opportunities

Alcohol measurement methodology in epidemiology: recent advances and opportunities

Survey of alcohol-related presentations to Australasian emergency departments

A 10-year national trend study of alcohol consumption, 1984-1995: is the period of declining drinking over?

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