Measuring the impact of alcohol-related disorders on quality of life through general population preferences

Abstract

Our findings confirm the benefits of adopting a heterogeneous approach to measure the effects of alcohol misuse. The estimated utilities could have both clinical and economic applications.

The association of health behavioral risk factors with quality of life in northern Sweden—A cross‐sectional survey

“…As expected, daily tobacco use and the heavy episodic drinking of alcohol were found to be associated with a significant decrease in the QoL. These results are supporting findings in a previous study that tobacco use and heavy alcohol drinking associated with significant reduction in QoL 3,4,11,18 . We opted to use a more rare but severe outcome of a harmful pattern of alcohol use rather than a general measure of total alcohol consumption, since we assessed this to be the most relevant outcome in relation to QoL.…”

“…Obesity, smoking, low level of physical activity, lack of fruit and vegetable intake, and harmful consumption of alcohol, all are established risk factors that have undesirable effects on health. These behavioral risk factors are potentially preventable to avoid their adverse effect on health 1–4 as well as their potential economic consequences. Modifying these risk factors is important to be considered in interventions to improve public health.…”

“…Heavy episodic drinking, or binge drinking, is a term used for the overconsumption of alcohol with an intention of becoming intoxicated, and this typically happens when a person's blood alcohol concentration reaches the level of 0.08 grams percent or above. It is found that the habit of binge drinking is significantly associated with worse QoL, and it leads to many serious health problems ranging from unintentional injuries and violence including homicide and suicide to the developing of many chronic diseases such as high blood pressure, stroke, and heart disease, and the developing of cancers in different parts in the body 4,18,19 .…”

Consumption of traditional alcoholic beverages in children from a rural village in Northern Peru, 2017

“…It is well known that these types of drinks cause a series of physiological problems (renal, digestive, hepatic, etc.) 3,4 , as well as behavioral problems, which include maladaptation to the family and social environment, and, in extreme situations, could lead to suicide 5 .…”

Commentary on Shanahan et al. (2020): The importance of quantifying the intangible costs for family members of drug users

“…have demonstrated how the use of double lottery or equivalent lottery techniques allow us to obtain weights that reduce this effect . Thus, there are some experiments and preference studies in which SF‐6D has been shown to be sensitive to the impact of alcohol dependence .…”