Cross‐cultural variation in the association between family's socioeconomic status and adolescent alcohol use

Matos, Elena Gomes de; Kraus, Ludwig; Hannemann, Tessa-Virginia; Soellner, Renate; Piontek, Daniela

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“…This, too, is a research question in its own right, which is investigated in Beutel and colleagues [29], among others. Further, conclusions can be drawn with regard to the population group studied, since it can be assumed that countries differ in terms of the social determinants of health and well-being [30–33].…”

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Income and education predict elevated depressive symptoms in the general population: results from the Gutenberg health study

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Background Socioeconomic status (SES) has a strong association with depression or physical and mental health in general. However, as SES is a multifaceted construct these associations are not easy to explain. Further, there are several indicators and many studies only investigating two or less indicators at the same time. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the cross-sectional and longitudinal association of three defined SES dimensions (education, occupational position and household net-income) with the occurrence of elevated symptoms of depression relative to the impact of important covariates. Methods The study included observational data from 12,484 participants of the Gutenberg Health Study. The outcome was “elevated depressive symptoms” as defined by Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-2) ≥ 2 at the 2.5-year follow-up. Regression coefficients were adjusted for baseline covariates (age, sex, partnership, depression, anxiety, medical history of depressive or anxiety disorder and major medical diseases (MMD)) in addition to SES sum score and the three single indicators. We further examined interaction terms of the SES with sex, partnership and major medical diseases. We analyzed the sample stratified by elevated depressive symptoms at baseline, as we expected different trajectories in both subgroups. Results SES, education and household net-income were lower in the group of persons with PHQ-2 ≥ 2 at baseline, and they predicted the occurrence of PHQ-2 ≥ 2 at 2.5 year follow-up in the group of persons without elevated depressive symptoms at baseline after multivariable adjustment (SES: Odds Ratio (OR) 0.96, 0.95–0.98, p < 0.0001; education: OR 0.96, 0.93–0.99, p = 0.036; household net-income: OR 0.96, 0.92–0.99, p = 0.046) but not in the group of persons with elevated depressive symptoms at baseline. Further, we found that the impact of major medical diseases on the development of elevated depressive symptoms was buffered by high income. In addition, living in a partnership buffered the impact of a low occupational position. Conclusions Regarding the SES, the dimensions education and household net-income seem to play the most important role for socioeconomic inequalities in persons in Mid-West Germany with depressive symptoms. Trial registration Reference no. 837.020.07; original vote: 22.3.2007, latest update: 20.10.2015 Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12889-019-6730-4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Income and education predict elevated depressive symptoms in the general population: results from the Gutenberg health study

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“…The reported evidence from adolescent samples and from men in east Africa clearly indicates that affordability of alcohol plays a role in the occurrence of binge drinking. This points to the importance of price increases by means of taxation, which was repeatedly shown to be among the most effective alcohol‐related public health policy measures .…”

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“…Investigating 32 European countries, Gomes de Matos et al . also found that drunkenness was more likely among adolescents from wealthier families but lower when parents were highly educated. Thus, it appears that the protection that higher education may offer is undermined by the higher income highly educated parents tend to have.…”

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“…Socio‐economic disparities in youth drinking were more pronounced in poorer countries and in those with high income inequality. It appears that a low socio‐economic position at the individual level makes less of a difference if one lives in a less‐poor country where there is wide access to education .…”

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Alcohol and other substance use in a cross‐cultural perspective

Kuntsche

Sznitman

Kuntsche

2017

Drug and Alcohol Review

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“…Socioeconomic status (SES) is one of several factors that influence substance use among individuals across the lifespan (Jones et al, 2016). Numerous studies have investigated the association between different SES indicators and the use of alcohol and other substances during adolescence and young adulthood (Humensky, 2010; Patrick et al, 2012; Finch et al, 2013; Kendler et al, 2014; Latvala et al, 2014; Lui et al, 2015; Pedersen et al, 2015; Charitonidi et al, 2016; Non et al, 2016; Gomes de Matos et al, 2017; Jang et al, 2017; Pape et al, 2017, 2018; Lee et al, 2018). The nature of this association is complex, and the link seems to be dependent on both how SES is measured and operationalized, the substance in question, the type of use, and the participating adolescents’ age (Ensminger et al, 2000; Boyce et al, 2006; Currie et al, 2008; Kendler et al, 2014; Charitonidi et al, 2016; Pape et al, 2018).…”

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Economic Circumstances in Childhood and Subsequent Substance Use in Adolescence – A Latent Class Analysis: The youth@hordaland Study

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The aim of the present study was to investigate the association between longitudinal registry-based data on family income during childhood and self-reported substance use in adolescence, including potential alcohol- or drug problems. Data from the Norwegian population-based youth@hordaland-survey was employed, and the analyzed included n = 8,983 adolescents aged 16–19 years. This information was linked to registry-based information about childhood family income for seven consecutive years prior to adolescents’ participation in the youth@hordaland-survey. Latent class analyses (LCA) were used to examine associations between patterns of family economic circumstances in childhood and subsequent substance use in adolescence. Based on the LCA, we identified four distinct patterns of family economic circumstances: a ‘never poor’ (89.3%) group, followed by two groups characterized by moving in (3.0%) or out (4.6%) of poverty, and a final ‘chronically poor’ (3.1%) group. Several findings were of interest: the chronically poor reported less daily snus use, fewer had tried alcohol, were less likely to report frequent intoxication, and less prone to have potential alcohol- or drug-related problems compared to all other groups. They were also less likely to have tried any illicit drug compared to those moving in or out of poverty. Finally, the chronically poor reported more daily smoking than the never poor group, but less daily smoking than the moving out of poverty group. The never poor group was less likely to have tried any illicit drugs compared to the groups moving into or out of poverty, and less likely to smoke daily compared to the moving out of poverty group. In other words, the present study somewhat surprisingly suggested lower substance use among the chronically poor adolescents compared to other adolescents on several of the measures of substance use.

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Cross‐cultural variation in the association between family's socioeconomic status and adolescent alcohol use

Cited by 20 publications

References 19 publications

Income and education predict elevated depressive symptoms in the general population: results from the Gutenberg health study

Income and education predict elevated depressive symptoms in the general population: results from the Gutenberg health study

Alcohol and other substance use in a cross‐cultural perspective

Economic Circumstances in Childhood and Subsequent Substance Use in Adolescence – A Latent Class Analysis: The youth@hordaland Study

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