The Hazardous Drinking Games Measure (HDGM): A multi-site implementation

Borsari, Brian; Peterson, Carla A.; Zamboanga, Byron L.; Correia, Christopher J.; Olthuis, Janine V.; Ham, Lindsay S.; Grossbard, Joel R.

doi:10.3109/00952990.2014.924522

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“…Drinking Games. We used two items from the Hazardous Drinking Game Measure (Borsari et al, 2014) to assess frequency of drinking games participation and the number of drinks consumed while playing drinking games. Participants reported how often they played drinking games in the past 30 days using a 5-point scale (0 = never, 1 = once, 2 = 2-4 times a month, 3 = 2-3 times a week, and 4 = 4 or more times a week) and how many total drinks they typically consumed when playing drinking games using a dropdown response option ranging from 1-15+ drinks.…”

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Validation of a Seven-Factor Structure for the Motives for Playing Drinking Games Measure

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Playing drinking games can be characterized as a high-risk drinking activity because games are typically designed to promote heavy alcohol consumption. While research suggests that young adults are motivated to play drinking games for a variety of reasons (e.g., for thrills/fun, for the competition), the Motives for Playing Drinking Games measure has received limited empirical attention. We examined the psychometric properties of this measure with a confirmation sample of young adults recruited from Amazon’s MTurk (N = 1,809, ages 18–25 years, 47% men; 41% not currently enrolled in college) and a validation sample of college students (N = 671; ages 18–23 years; 26% men). Contrary to the 8-factor model obtained by Johnson and Sheets in a study published in 2004, examination of the factor structure with our confirmation sample yielded a revised 7-factor model that was invariant across race/ethnicity and college student status. This model was also validated with the college student sample. In the confirmation sample, enhancement/thrills and sexual pursuit motives for playing drinking games were positively associated with gaming frequency/consumption and negative gaming consequences. Furthermore, conformity motives for playing drinking games were positively associated with negative gaming consequences, while competition motives were positively associated with gaming frequency. These findings have significant implications for research and prevention/intervention efforts.

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“…Further alcohol-related social consequences include traffic and domestic accidents, legal and money problems, and gambling. Alcohol abuse can also lead to the development of dangerous behaviors such as increased consumption, unprotected sex (increasing sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies), and driving under the influence of alcohol [5-10]. New trends such as neknomination and binge drinking are leading to higher numbers of episodes of drunkenness [16,17].…”

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The Rise of New Alcoholic Games Among Adolescents and the Consequences in the Emergency Department: Observational Retrospective Study

Barbieri

Omizzolo

Tredese

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Background The links between the internet and teenager behavior are difficult situations to control and may lead to the development of new and excessive methods of drinking alcohol during alcoholic games. Findings indicate that reported cases are very useful sources for better understanding of alcoholic games, yielding successful measures promoting health among adolescents. Admittance of adolescents to hospital emergency departments (EDs) after consumption of excessive amounts of alcohol has become the norm in developed countries. The harmful effects of acute alcohol abuse are reported in this paper. Objective The aim of this work was to investigate the close connections between new drinking behaviors among adolescents and study the increase in new alcoholic games, together with the challenges that cause acute alcohol intoxication, the influence of the internet and social networks, and their consequences for public health services. Methods Data came from prehospital and intrahospital admissions attributable to alcohol consumption. From 2013 to 2015, 3742 patients were admitted to EDs due to acute alcohol intoxication: 830 of them were aged 15 to 30 years, and 225 were adolescents and young adults between 15 and 20 years who had been playing alcoholic games. Retrospectively, diagnostic data associated with extrahospital anamneses were selected by one of the hospital management information systems, Qlik. As a result of our previous experience, questionnaires and face-to-face interviews were performed at a later stage, when a clinical audit for intoxicated adolescent patients was described, with the overall goal of establishing a potential methodological workflow and adding important information to research carried out so far. Results Between 2013 and 2015, 830 young patients aged 15 to 30 years were admitted to EDs for acute alcohol intoxication. About 20% (166/830) of the sample confirmed that they had drunk more than 5 alcoholic units within 2 hours twice during the past 30 days as a result of binge drinking. Referring to new alcoholic games, 41% of the sample stated that they knew what neknomination is and also that at least one of their friends had accepted this challenge, describing symptoms such as vomiting, headache, altered behavior, increased talkativeness, and sociability. The median value of the weighted average cost of the diagnosis-related group relating to interventions provided by hospitals was the same for both genders, €46,091 (US $56,497; minimum €17,349 and maximum €46,091). Conclusions Drinking games encourage young people to consume large quantities of alcohol within a short period of time putting them at risk of alcohol poisoning, which can potentially lead to accidental injuries, unsafe sex, suicide, sexual assault, and traffic accidents. The spread of these games through the internet and social networks is becoming a serious health problem facing physicians and...

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“…Research has been conducted into developing comprehensive measures (5,62,63), and future research into the relationship of social anxiety and drinking game participation would benefit from their inclusion.…”

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Social anxiety and drinking game participation among university students: the moderating role of drinking to cope

Mulligan

George

Brown

2016

The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse

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The Hazardous Drinking Games Measure (HDGM): A multi-site implementation

Cited by 23 publications

References 44 publications

Validation of a Seven-Factor Structure for the Motives for Playing Drinking Games Measure

Validation of a Seven-Factor Structure for the Motives for Playing Drinking Games Measure

The Rise of New Alcoholic Games Among Adolescents and the Consequences in the Emergency Department: Observational Retrospective Study

Social anxiety and drinking game participation among university students: the moderating role of drinking to cope

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