The impact of drinking and drinking consequences on short-term employment outcomes in at-risk drinkers in six southern states

Booth, Brenda M.; Feng, Weiwei

doi:10.1007/bf02287702

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“…Neurological and psychiatric issues associated with alcohol misuse include dementia, stroke (Carrao, Bagnardi, Zambon, & La Vecchia, 2004; Carrao, Rubbiati, Zambon, & Arico, 2002), depression, anxiety, and suicide (Castaneda, Sussman, Westreich, Levy, & O’Malley, 1996). People who misuse alcohol are at higher risk of unemployment and decreased productivity (Booth & Feng, 2002). …”

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Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention as Standard Practice: Working with the American Indian/Native Alaskan Populations

Wolf

Duran

Dulmus³

et al. 2014

Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment

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Alcohol use and the resulting problems associated with high-risk drinking in the American Indian/Native Alaskan (AI/NA) population are well-documented, as alcohol misuse has taken an incredible toll on many AI/NA communities. Presently, both overall health issues and alcohol use occur disproportionately within this population. This article provides an updated overview of the impact of alcohol use in the United States and within AI/NA communities specifically. It also provides recommendations for an alcohol-related screening and brief intervention instrument that social workers can begin using in their practice and can be utilized within the AI/NA community.

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Section: Alcohol Use Consequences In the United Statesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention as Standard Practice: Working with the American Indian/Native Alaskan Populations

Wolf

Duran

Dulmus³

et al. 2014

Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment

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“…The mere consumption of alcoholic beverage by any person may not predispose them to health or social consequences. It is rather the quantity of alcoholic beverage consumed and the drinking frequency that, importantly, can predict the likely health effects or other socially related consequences they encounter [ 4 - 6 ].…”

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Consumption and drinking frequency of alcoholic beverage among women in Ghana: a cross-sectional study

Tampah-Naah

Amoah

2015

BMC Public Health

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BackgroundThe consumption and drinking frequency of alcoholic beverage are identified with various individual factors. The aim of this study was to identify background characteristics of women associated with the consumption and drinking frequency of alcoholic beverage.MethodsData was extracted from the 2008 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey. The data consisted of women’s (aged 15–49 years) background characteristics and their reported history of consumption and drinking frequency of alcoholic beverage. A weighted sample size of 4916 women was used in the present study. Binary logistic regression and multinomial logistic regression were applied to examine the independent association between the covariates and the consumption and drinking frequency of alcoholic beverage respectively.ResultsOut of the 4916 women that were included in the study, 17.5% consumed alcoholic beverage in the past week. Factors that were found to be associated with women who consumed alcoholic beverage in a binary logistic regression model were age (15–19 years up to 45–49 years), region (Central, Greater Accra, Volta, Ashanti, Northern, Upper East, and Upper West), ethnicity (Ga or Dangme, Mole-Dagbani, Grussi, Gruma or Mande), wealth quintile (middle), and employment status [past 12 months] (those employed). In the multinomial logistic regression model, drinking frequency of alcoholic beverage was associated with women in the Central (none), Greater Accra Region (none and 4 or more times), Eastern (none and 2–3 times), Brong Ahafo (none), Upper East (none), those who attained primary education (4 or more times), Ga/Dangme ethnic group (none), those of middle wealth quintile (none), and those employed (4 or more times).ConclusionsIn the country, about 2 in 10 women consume alcoholic beverage and the drinking frequency of alcoholic beverage varied among women in the country. Hence, the maintenance of moderate alcoholic beverage consumption among women, where applicable, should be encouraged.

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“…The negative social and health consequences associated with alcohol and drug disorders are well understood [49] and include lower employment outcomes [5, 37, 38], high rates of criminal justice involvement and violence [4, 10, 12, 15, 36, 51], and substantial medical/physical consequences [20, 48, 49]. …”

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Religiosity and decreased risk of substance use disorders: is the effect mediated by social support or mental health status?

Edlund

Harris

Koenig

et al. 2009

Soc Psychiat Epidemiol

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ObjectiveThe negative association between religiosity (religious beliefs and church attendance) and the likelihood of substance use disorders is well established, but the mechanism(s) remain poorly understood. We investigated whether this association was mediated by social support or mental health status.MethodWe utilized cross-sectional data from the 2002 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (n = 36,370). We first used logistic regression to regress any alcohol use in the past year on sociodemographic and religiosity variables. Then, among individuals who drank in the past year, we regressed past year alcohol abuse/dependence on sociodemographic and religiosity variables. To investigate whether social support mediated the association between religiosity and alcohol use and alcohol abuse/dependence we repeated the above models, adding the social support variables. To the extent that these added predictors modified the magnitude of the effect of the religiosity variables, we interpreted social support as a possible mediator. We also formally tested for mediation using path analysis. We investigated the possible mediating role of mental health status analogously. Parallel sets of analyses were conducted for any drug use, and drug abuse/dependence among those using any drugs as the dependent variables.ResultsThe addition of social support and mental health status variables to logistic regression models had little effect on the magnitude of the religiosity coefficients in any of the models. While some of the tests of mediation were significant in the path analyses, the results were not always in the expected direction, and the magnitude of the effects was small.ConclusionsThe association between religiosity and decreased likelihood of a substance use disorder does not appear to be substantively mediated by either social support or mental health status.

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The impact of drinking and drinking consequences on short-term employment outcomes in at-risk drinkers in six southern states

Cited by 36 publications

References 25 publications

Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention as Standard Practice: Working with the American Indian/Native Alaskan Populations

Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention as Standard Practice: Working with the American Indian/Native Alaskan Populations

Consumption and drinking frequency of alcoholic beverage among women in Ghana: a cross-sectional study

Religiosity and decreased risk of substance use disorders: is the effect mediated by social support or mental health status?

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