Hazardous alcohol use and alcohol-related harm in rural and remote communities: a scoping review

Friesen, Erik Loewen; Bailey, Jacob; Hyett, Sarah; Sedighi, Sina; Snoo, Mitchell Lennox de; Williams, Karen; Barry, Rebecca; Erickson, Anders W.; Foroutan, Farid; Selby, Peter; Rosella, Laura; Kurdyak, Paul

doi:10.1016/s2468-2667(21)00159-6

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“…Single respondents living with dependents were also at increased risk of alcohol-related family violence, compared to all other household compositions. Consistent with previous findings, gender was associated with alcoholrelated violence (Friesen et al, 2021;. Economic disparities also emerged in line with broader research and suggested that poorer groups tended to experience more alcohol-related violence than wealthier cohorts, even after accounting for differences in consumption (Bryant & Lightowlers, 2021;Wood & Bellis, 2017).…”

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confidence: 84%

Alcohol-related family violence in Australia: Secondary data analysis of the National Drug Strategy Household Survey

Willoughby

Jiang

Anderson-Luxford

et al. 2021

IJADR

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Aims: Alcohol is a risk factor for family violence that affects partners, parents, children and other relatives. This study aims to provide estimates of the prevalence of alcohol-related family violence reported in 2016 in Australia across numerous socio-demographic groups. Methods: This paper presents secondary data analysis of 23,749 respondents (10,840 men, 12,909 women) from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare’s 2016 National Drug Strategy Household Survey (NDSHS). Alcohol-related family violence was measured by self-report as being physically or verbally abused or put in fear from a family member or partner deemed by the victim as under the influence of alcohol. Logistic regression was used to analyse which factors were associated with alcohol-related family violence. Findings: Analysis revealed that 5.9% of respondents (7.7% of women and 4.0% of men) reported alcohol-related family violence in the past year from either a partner or another family member. Respondents who were women (vs men), within less advantaged (vs more advantaged) socio-economic groups, risky drinkers (vs non-risky drinkers), residing in outer regional areas (vs major cities), holding a diploma (vs high school education) and single with dependents, reported higher overall rates of alcohol-related family violence. In contrast, respondents aged 55+ had significantly lower odds of experiencing alcohol-related family violence than all other age groups. Conclusions: Alcohol-related family violence was significantly more prevalent amongst respondents in a range of socio-demographic categories. Identification of these groups which are adversely affected by the drinking of family and partners can aid in informing current policy to protect those more vulnerable.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 84%

Alcohol-related family violence in Australia: Secondary data analysis of the National Drug Strategy Household Survey

Willoughby

Jiang

Anderson-Luxford

et al. 2021

IJADR

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“…The factors behind the increasing SDR in the non-metropolitan region over that in the metropolitan region were also detected. It has been established that deviating alcohol consumption contributes to a major risk factor for death/disease and suicide ( 73 ). Especially, during the pandemic, alcohol use has been also considered a biologically and socio-psychologically deteriorating prognostic factor for COVID-19 ( 74 , 75 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

Analyzing the changing relationship between personal consumption and suicide mortality during COVID-19 pandemic in Japan, using governmental and personal consumption transaction databases

Matsumoto

Kawano²,

Motomura³

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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During the early stages of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, suicides did not increase in most countries/regions. Japan, however, was an exception to this, reporting increased numbers of female suicides with no changes in male suicide. To explore the trends of increasing suicides, the fluctuations of personal consumption (as an indicator of lifestyle) and standardized suicide death rate (SDR) disaggregated by age, sex, and prefecture, were determined using a linear mixed-effect model. Additionally, fixed effects of personal consumption on SDR during the pandemic were also analyzed using hierarchical linear regression models with robust standard errors. During the first wave of the pandemic, SDR for both sexes decreased slightly but increased during the second half of 2020. SDR of females younger than 70 years old and males younger than 40 years old continued to increase throughout 2021, whereas SDR for other ages of both sexes did not increase. Personal consumption expenditures on out-of-home recreations (travel agencies, pubs, and hotels) and internet/mobile communication expenses decreased, but expenditures on home-based recreations (contents distribution) increased during the pandemic. Increased expenditures on internet/mobile communication were related to increasing SDR of both sexes. Increasing expenditures on content distributions were related to increasing females' SDR without affecting that of males. Decreasing expenditures on pubs were related to increasing SDR of both sexes in the non-metropolitan region. These findings suggest that transformed individual lifestyles, extended time at home with a decreased outing for contact with others, contributed to the progression of isolation as a risk of suicide. Unexpectedly, increasing compensatory contact with others using internet/mobile communication enhanced isolation resulting in increased suicide risk.

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“…Lastly, we analysed data from urban centres of the two countries. A generalization of these findings to the entire country may be limited by possible urban-rural differences in the sociodemographic composition of the population, which is a known driver for variation in alcohol use and attributable harm [ 34 ].…”

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confidence: 99%

Reduced alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic: Analyses of 17 000 patients seeking primary health care in Colombia and Mexico

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Background During the COVID-19 pandemic, an increase of heavy alcohol use has been reported in several high-income countries. We examined changes in alcohol use during the pandemic among primary health care (PHC) patients in two middle income countries, Colombia and Mexico. Methods Data were collected during routine consultations in 34 PHC centres as part of a large-scale implementation study. Providers measured patients’ alcohol consumption with the three item ‘Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test’ (AUDIT-C). Generalized linear mixed models were performed to examine changes in two dependent variables over time (pre-pandemic and during pandemic): 1) the AUDIT-C score and 2) the proportion of heavy drinking patients (8+ on AUDIT-C). Results Over a period of more than 600 days, data from N = 17 273 patients were collected. During the pandemic, the number of patients with their alcohol consumption measured decreased in Colombia and Mexico. Each month into the pandemic was associated with a 1.5% and 1.9% reduction in the mean AUDIT-C score in Colombia and Mexico, respectively. The proportion of heavy drinking patients declined during the pandemic in Colombia (pre-pandemic: 5.4%, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 4.8% to 6.0%; during the pandemic: 0.8%, 95% CI = 0.6% to 1.1%) but did not change in Mexico. Conclusions Average consumption levels declined and the prevalence of heavy drinking patterns did not increase. In addition to reduced opportunities for social drinking during the pandemic, changes in the population seeking PHC and restrictions in alcohol availability and affordability are likely drivers for lower levels of alcohol use by patients in this study.

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Hazardous alcohol use and alcohol-related harm in rural and remote communities: a scoping review

Cited by 40 publications

References 58 publications

Alcohol-related family violence in Australia: Secondary data analysis of the National Drug Strategy Household Survey

Alcohol-related family violence in Australia: Secondary data analysis of the National Drug Strategy Household Survey

Analyzing the changing relationship between personal consumption and suicide mortality during COVID-19 pandemic in Japan, using governmental and personal consumption transaction databases

Reduced alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic: Analyses of 17 000 patients seeking primary health care in Colombia and Mexico

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