Perceived availability of substances, substance use and substance‐related problems: a cross national study among French and Dutch adolescents

Knibbe, Ronald A.; Joosten, Jan; Derickx, Mieke; Choquet, Marie; Morin, Delphine; Monshouwer, Karin; Vollebergh, Wilma

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“…These may suggest people who think alcohol is more available for children and adolescents are more likely to develop an alcohol use disorder and drink more but not more frequently. Our results differ slightly from results from previous studies, which showed that the perceived alcohol availability for children and adolescents is related to both alcohol use quantity, and frequency (Ahlström and Huntanen, 2007; Knibbe et al, 2005; Smart, 1977). The association between high AUDIT scores in adulthood and perceived alcohol availability for children also signified their associations with the early onset of drinking.…”

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Alcohol Availability, Cost, Age of First Drink, and Its Association with At‐Risk Alcohol Use in Moshi, Tanzania

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Duan

Ginalis

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Alcoholism Clin & Exp Res

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Background: The Kilimanjaro region has one of the highest levels of reported alcohol intake per capita in Tanzania. Age at first drink has been found to be associated with alcohol problems in adulthood, but there is less information on the age of first drink in the Kilimanjaro region and its associations with alcohol-related consequences later in life. Furthermore, local alcohol cost and availability may influence the prevalence of alcohol use and alcohol use disorders. Methods: Data on the age of first drink, alcohol use disorder identification tool (AUDIT), number and type of alcohol consequences (DrInC), and perceived alcohol at low cost and high availability for children and adolescents were collected from an alcohol and health behavior survey of injury patients (N = 242) in Moshi, Tanzania. Generalized linear models were used to test age at first drink, perceived alcohol cost and availability, and their association with the AUDIT and DrInC scores, and current alcohol use, respectively. Results: Consuming alcohol before age 18 was significantly associated with higher AUDIT and DrInC scores, with odds ratios of 1.22 (CI: 1.004, 1.47) and 1.72 (CI: 1.11, 2.63), respectively. Female gender is strongly associated with less alcohol use and alcohol consequences, represented by an odds ratio of 3.70 (CI: 1.72, 8.33) for an AUDIT score above 8 and an odds ratio of 3.84 (CI: 2.13, 6.67) with the DrInC score. Perceived high availability of alcohol for children is significantly related to higher alcohol use quantity, with the odds ratio of 1.6 (CI: 1.17, 2.20). Conclusions: The first use of alcohol before the age of 18 is associated with higher alcohol use and alcohol-related adverse consequences. In Tanzania, age at first drink is an important target for interventions aiming to prevent negative alcohol-related consequences later in life.

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Alcohol Availability, Cost, Age of First Drink, and Its Association with At‐Risk Alcohol Use in Moshi, Tanzania

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Duan

Ginalis

et al. 2020

Alcoholism Clin & Exp Res

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“…La relación entre facilidad del suministro e intensidad del consumo ha sido habitualmente considerada dentro de la investigación sobre consumo de alcohol juvenil (Knibbe et al, 2005;Laespada y Elzo, 2007a), señalándose que la disponibilidad social de una sustancia tiene una especial incidencia en el inicio del consumo, incluso desde la preadolescencia (Komro et al, 1998). De hecho, son numerosos los autores que se refieren a que las medidas de control sobre el acceso, tales como retrasar la edad legal de dispensación o incrementar los precios de las bebidas en las tiendas, han demostrado reducir los niveles de consumo alcohólico entre los adolescentes (Anderson y Baumberg, 2006;Babor et al, 2003;Chisholm, Rehm, Van Ommeren y Monteiro, 2004;Kendel, 1996).…”

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Factores Asociados al Consumo Juvenil de Alcohol: Una Revisión desde una Perspectiva Psicosocial y Ecológica

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Buelga²

2011

Psychosocial Intervention

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Resumen. El consumo abusivo de alcohol en la adolescencia es, en el momento actual, un importante problema de salud pública, hasta el punto de que su prevención se ha convertido en una de las prioridades en las políticas de salud. También, y en el ámbito de la intervención social, se ha venido estudiando, en los últimos años, los factores psicosociales implicados en ese consumo. En el presente trabajo se lleva a cabo una revisión de esos factores en el marco de la perspectiva ecológica, en la que se integran las variables psicológicas, relacionales y socioculturales. El consumo de alcohol es analizado como parte integrante de la cultura juvenil, despojando la explicación de contenidos patologistas o moralistas, y aproximándonos a la concepción de que el consumo de alcohol es un medio que utiliza el adolescente para lograr su ajuste en una sociedad que se caracteriza por la complejidad. Se analiza, en primer lugar, las variables disposicionales del sujeto, seguidamente se repasan las provenientes del contexto familiar y, finalmente, se explora la relación entre el consumo de alcohol y los factores del entorno sociocultural. Palabras clave: adolescencia, alcohol, consumo abusivo de alcohol, drogas, modelo ecológico.Abstract. Abusive alcohol consumption in adolescence is currently an important problem of public health, to the point that prevention has become a priority in health policies. Also, in the field of social intervention, the psychosocial factors involved in that consumption has been studied in the last years. In the present work a revision of those factors is carried out from the ecological perspective, in which psychological, relational and sociocultural variables are integrated. Alcohol consumption is analyzed as part of the youth culture, rejecting explanations of pathological or moralistic content, and following an approach in which alcohol consumption is understood as a mean used by the adolescent in order to achieve adjustment in a society characterized by complexity. First, individual dispositional variables are analysed; following this, variables from the family context are examined, and finally the relationship between alcohol consumption and factors of the sociocultural context are explored.

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“…From a global perspective, the prevalence of illicit drugs seems to be higher in more developed countries (Degenhardt & Hall, 2012). In most of these countries, restrictions and measures targeted at decreasing the availability of psychoactive substances are considered to be particularly important in preventing substance use and its related problems among youths (Knibbe et al, 2005). As documented by international surveys (Currie et al, 2012;Hibell et al, 2012), however, Czech adolescents have the highest levels of both availability and prevalence of substance use compared to other European teenagers.…”

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What Affects What? Perceived Cannabis Availability and Its Use Among Czech Urban Youth—A Multilevel Sociogeographic Analysis

2019

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Although there is already considerable research on the connection between the availability of substance and the prevalence of its use, the relative effect that one factor has on the other is rather unclear. The present study aims to scrutinize the mutual relationship between subjectively perceived cannabis availability and the prevalence of cannabis use among 15-to 16-year-old students, applying an integrative multilevel analytic framework. The Czech 2011 European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD) dataset (N = 8,069 respondents) entered multilevel regression analyses to examine the sociogeographical inequalities in both perceived availability and adolescent frequent cannabis use (individuals [Level 1] nested within schools [Level 2] and localities [Level 3]). At the same time, the mutual relationship of the two cannabis indicators was demonstrated. At the level of individuals (Level 1), the simultaneous equations modeling (SEM) approach was applied to estimate the relative effect of perceived cannabis availability on the frequency of cannabis use and compare it vice versa. Adolescents coming from highly urbanized areas perceived cannabis to be more readily available, and they had a higher prevalence of frequent cannabis use. The higher availability mediated the sociogeographic inequalities in cannabis use. The locality unemployment rate was unrelated to either of the two cannabis indicators. At the individual level of the adolescent respondent, the effect of perceived availability on cannabis use appears to be much stronger than that of the effect of cannabis use on perceived availability when reversed. Perceived availability was found to mediate sociogeographic inequalities in cannabis use among Czechs adolescents. If a higher availability increases opportunities for adolescent substance misuse, then alongside other preventive measures, a spatially integrated approach should be applied in the national drug policy.

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Perceived availability of substances, substance use and substance‐related problems: a cross national study among French and Dutch adolescents

Cited by 12 publications

References 11 publications

Alcohol Availability, Cost, Age of First Drink, and Its Association with At‐Risk Alcohol Use in Moshi, Tanzania

Alcohol Availability, Cost, Age of First Drink, and Its Association with At‐Risk Alcohol Use in Moshi, Tanzania

Factores Asociados al Consumo Juvenil de Alcohol: Una Revisión desde una Perspectiva Psicosocial y Ecológica

What Affects What? Perceived Cannabis Availability and Its Use Among Czech Urban Youth—A Multilevel Sociogeographic Analysis

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