Leisure-time socializing with peers as a mediator of recent decline in alcohol use in Czech adolescents

Chomynová, Pavla; Kážmér, Ladislav

doi:10.1080/14659891.2019.1640304

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“…A slight increase in spending time with parents was found in a Swedish study, yet this change was not independently related to the decline in adolescent drinking [17]. What did make a difference was a large reduction in leisure-time social interaction with peers, which corroborates the results of other recent studies [14,[17][18][19]. However, the frequency of 'going out with friends' increased among Finnish youth in the 2000s, and paradoxically, Raitasalo et al [12] found that this change-in a statistical sense-explained some of the reduction in drinking.…”

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“…The single most important factor to explain the decline in drinking in our study was the decrease in time hanging out with friends in the evening. Some previous studies [14,17–19] have also found that a decrease in hanging out with friends contributed to a decrease in drinking. The decrease in unsupervised socialising with peers probably implies fewer opportunities for drinking to intoxication.…”

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Decline in adolescent drinking: Some possible explanations

Rossow

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Torgersen

2020

Drug and Alcohol Review

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Introduction and Aims Adolescent drinking has decreased in numerous high‐income countries in the 2000s, and how to explain this downward trend is far from clear. Focussing on the decline in drinking to intoxication among youth in Norway, we examined the following potential explanatory factors: family/home‐based and peer‐oriented leisure‐time activities, perceived parental drinking, drug substitution, school conscientiousness and delinquency. Design and Methods Data stemmed from cross‐sectional surveys of adolescents aged 13–17 years in the four largest cities in Norway in 2002 (n = 1204) and in 2013/2015 (n = 31 441). We examined the extent to which the decline in intoxication prevalence was attributable to the possible explanatory variables using logistic regression analysis. Results The proportion reporting any past‐year intoxication episodes dropped markedly from 2002 (41%) to 2013/2015 (22%). Family/home‐oriented leisure‐time activities and school conscientiousness increased, whereas hanging out with friends in the evening and delinquent behaviours decreased. These factors together accounted for 43% of this decline. Decrease in going out with friends was the most important factor. We found no empirical support for assumptions that perceived parental drinking or drug substitution had contributed to the decrease in drinking to intoxication. Discussion and Conclusions Since the millennium shift, urban adolescents in Norway have become more home‐, family‐ and school‐oriented, and less involved in unsupervised socialising with peers and delinquency. These changes may have contributed to some of the reduction in the prevalence of intoxication in this population group.

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Decline in adolescent drinking: Some possible explanations

Rossow

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Torgersen

2020

Drug and Alcohol Review

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“…Organised leisure activities, usually adult guided, are considered effective in reducing the risks of adolescents' involvement in alcohol use [40,41] while unorganised socialising with peers, often defined as going out with friends, is found to be associated with a higher prevalence of alcohol use [42–44]. In a recent study of Czech adolescents, unorganised socialising with peers had a significant effect on alcohol consumption among adolescents, that is, a decline in the frequency of going out with friends explained a major part of a decline in alcohol use [45]. However, sports activities have been shown both to increase [46] and decrease [47] adolescent drinking.…”

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Similar countries, similar factors? Studying the decline of heavy episodic drinking in adolescents in Finland, Norway and Sweden

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Aim To (i) examine several factors associated with trends in heavy episodic drinking (HED) in Finland, Norway and Sweden, (ii) investigate similarities in these associations across the countries and (iii) analyse the contribution of these factors to the trend in HED and the differences across the countries. Design and Setting Observational study using five waves of the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD) from Finland, Norway and Sweden between 1999 and 2015. Participants A total of 18 128 male and 19 121 female 15‐ to 16‐year‐old students. Measurements Monthly HED, perceived access to alcohol, truancy, parental control, leisure time activities and daily smoking. The Cochran–Armitage test was used to examine linear time trends in HED. Logit regression models using the Karlson–Holm–Breen (KHB) method were fitted for each country separately, including all the independent variables together with time and adjusted for family status, parental education and gender. Findings In Finland, Norway and Sweden, perceived access to alcohol, truancy and daily smoking decreased significantly between 1999 and 2015 whereas risk perceptions, parental control and participation in sports increased in the same period. The confounding percentage of all the independent variables related to the trend in HED was 48.8%, 68.9% and 36.7% for Finland, Norway and Sweden, respectively. Decline in daily smoking (P < 0.001) and perceived access to alcohol (P < 0.001) were positively and increase in parental control (P < 0.001) negatively associated with the decline in HED in all three countries. Changes in truancy, going out with friends, and engaging in sports and other hobbies had little or no impact on the decline in HED or displayed no consistent results across the countries. Conclusions The decline in adolescent heavy episodic drinking in Finland, Norway and Sweden between 1999 and 2015 appears to be associated with a decline in adolescent daily smoking and perceived access to alcohol and an increase in parental control.

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“…Specific explanation for the recent decline in alcohol use concerns the changing preferences of leisure activities among the contemporary Czech youth. 22 Easy access to the Internet, and increasing availability of computers, tablets or smartphones leads to the situation, when young people spend hours on digital technologies. As documented by both the HBSC and ESPAD data, there was a gradual increase in total time spent on computer and use of e-media among adolescents across the European countries in the last decade, including Czechia.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The recent study by Chomynová and Kážmér 22 (in review) provides empirical evidence of the changing preferences of leisure among the adolescent Czechs, particularly with respect to the significantly lowered frequency of going out with friends and peers during out-of-school time. Interestingly, the lowered frequency explained major part of recent decline in adolescent alcohol use (51-99% of declines in the prevalence of alcohol intoxication and binge drinking between periods of 2011 and 2015), which is probably also related to the spread of new digital technologies.…”

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Changing Trends in Adolescent Alcohol Use among Czech School-Aged Children from 1994 to 2014

Kážmér

Csémy

2019

Journal of Public Health Research

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Background: For an efficient planning of public health policy, the regular monitoring over health-related behaviors among vulnerable population groups is necessary. The aim of this study is to examine the temporal trends in alcohol use among the Czech adolescent population. Design and methods: Data from the Health Behaviour in Schoolaged Children (HBSC) project conducted in Czechia from 1994 to 2014 were used. Adolescent alcohol use was assessed via two indicators: i) weekly alcohol use (beer, wine, and/or spirit), ii) repeated lifetime drunkenness (having been drunk on two or more occasions in life). Trends in alcohol use were modelled separately for boys and girls. Binary logistic regression was conducted with survey period as an independent predictor of the alcohol indicator. Results: There were significant changes in adolescent alcohol use since 1994. Between 1994 and 2010, there was a gradual upward in the prevalence. However, in the recent period of 2014, an unprecedented drop in alcohol use was recorded. Conclusions: Despite the significant drop in the prevalence of alcohol use among the Czech youth in recent years, alcohol drinking in adolescence remains an important challenge for the national health policy. Further research will show whether these changes in adolescent health-related behavior are of a temporary or a permanent nature.

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Leisure-time socializing with peers as a mediator of recent decline in alcohol use in Czech adolescents

Cited by 13 publications

References 43 publications

Decline in adolescent drinking: Some possible explanations

Decline in adolescent drinking: Some possible explanations

Similar countries, similar factors? Studying the decline of heavy episodic drinking in adolescents in Finland, Norway and Sweden

Changing Trends in Adolescent Alcohol Use among Czech School-Aged Children from 1994 to 2014

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