The Role of Religiosity in Influencing Adolescent and Adult Alcohol Use in Trinidad

Rollocks, Steve; Dass, Natasha; Seepersad, Randy; Mohammed, Linda

doi:10.2190/de.38.4.d

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“…In the less developed world (Trinidad) adult and adolescent Roman Catholics reported generally higher rates of alcohol consumption than Muslims, Hindus, Pentecostals and Others in that order, although results for use among adolescents were non-significant (Rollocks, Dass, Seepersad, & Mohammed, 2008).…”

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Lithuanian Paternal Health Behavior: Alcohol and Religion

Medvedovski¹

2021

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This paper explores the relationship between paternal religious affiliation, practice, and health behavior, namely consumption of alcohol. This research models alcohol consumption as an aggregate sum of weekly glasses of wine, 50 ml vodka shots, half-liter bottles of beer, and cocktails. The model includes religious confession among other independent variables including self-reported health status. In confessional comparison, the largest fraction, Catholic, is the reference category opposite Orthodox, Protestant, Other non-affiliated believers and Atheist. Significantly, Other believers and Lithuanian Protestants consumed significantly more alcohol than Catholic respondents. A unit increase in prayer or religious reading did not significantly predict a change in alcohol consumption. However a unit increase in weekly work hours significantly decreases alcohol consumption in contrast to a unit increase in time spent with children. Higher consumption is associated with lower self-reported health status. KEY WORDS: consumption of alcohol, health, religion. AnotacijaStraipsnyje nagrinėjamos tėvų išpažįstamos religijos, praktikos ir su sveikata susijusio elgesio, būtent alkoholio vartojimo, sąsajos. Alkoholio vartojimas vertinamas pagal suvestinį suvartoto alkoholio vienetų skaičių per savaitę. Tyrimui pasirinktas modelis, kurį taikant vertinamas išpažįstamos religijos ir respondentų įsivertintos sveikatos būklės ryšys. Didžiausią tikinčiųjų grupę sudaro katalikai, lyginant su stačiatikiais, protestantais, kitų religijų atstovais ir ateistais. Svarbu tai, kad kiti tikintieji ir Lietuvos protestantai suvartojo daug daugiau alkoholio nei respondentai katalikai. Tyrimas atskleidė, kad kitą tikėjimą išpažįstantys žmonės ir Lietuvos protestantai išgeria statistiškai reikšmingai daugiau alkoholio, lyginant su katalikais. Nenustatyta sąsajų tarp laiko, skiriamo maldai ir religinės literatūros skaitymui, bei alkoholio vartojimo kiekio. Didesnis suvartojamo alkoholio kiekis susijęs su prastesniu savo sveikatos įsivertinimu.PAGRINDINIAI ŽODŽIAI: alkoholio vartojimas, religija, sveikata.

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Lithuanian Paternal Health Behavior: Alcohol and Religion

Medvedovski¹

2021

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“…To obtain an unconfounded estimate of the association between household composition and parent approval of alcohol use, we adjusted for other parent factors at each wave, including religiosity, 37 education, 26 income level 26 and employment status 38 (Supplementary Figure 1). We also adjusted analyses for the following confounders while estimating the association between parent alcohol use and approval of drinking at each wave: parent factors (age, 39 religiosity, 40 education, 26,41 employment status, 39 income level 26,41 ); and family factors (family history of heavy drinking, 42 household composition, 27,41 family conflict 43 and positive family relationships 43 ), see Supplementary Figure 2.…”

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Parent characteristics associated with approval of their children drinking alcohol from ages 13 to 16 years: prospective cohort study

Sharmin

Kypri

Wadolowski

et al. 2018

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

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Parent hazardous drinking and their children’s alcohol use in early and mid-adolescence: prospective cohort study

Sharmin

Kypri

Wadolowski

et al. 2019

European Journal of Public Health

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Background Why adolescents’ drinking is associated with their parents’ drinking remains unclear. We examined associations in a prospective cohort study, adjusting for socio-demographic characteristics and family factors. Methods We recruited 1927 children from grade 7 classes (mean age 13 years), and one of their parents, in three Australian states, contacted participants annually from 2010 to 2014, and analysed data from assessments at ages 13, 14, 15 and 16 years. We used the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test-Consumption (AUDIT-C) subscale to identify hazardous drinking in parents (score ≥5) and children (score ≥3) and constructed mixed-effect logistic regression models, accounting for clustering within school and adjusting for likely confounders. We evaluated the sensitivity of estimates by imputing missing values assuming the data were missing at random vs. missing not at random. Results Parent hazardous drinking predicted mid-adolescent hazardous drinking, e.g. 15 years olds whose parents [adjusted odds ratio (aOR) 2.00; 95% confidence interval 1.51–2.64] or parents’ partners (aOR 1.94; 1.48–2.55) were hazardous drinkers had higher odds of being hazardous drinkers at age 16. The magnitude of univariate associations changed little after adjusting for covariates, and sensitivity analyses confirmed the robustness of the association, across a wide range of assumptions about the missing data. Conclusions The associations between parents’ and their adolescent children’s hazardous drinking are unlikely to be due to confounding by socio-demographic and family factors. Parents should be encouraged, and supported by public policy, to reduce their own alcohol consumption in order to reduce their children’s risk of becoming hazardous drinkers.

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The Role of Religiosity in Influencing Adolescent and Adult Alcohol Use in Trinidad

Cited by 5 publications

References 12 publications

Lithuanian Paternal Health Behavior: Alcohol and Religion

Lithuanian Paternal Health Behavior: Alcohol and Religion

Parent characteristics associated with approval of their children drinking alcohol from ages 13 to 16 years: prospective cohort study

Parent hazardous drinking and their children’s alcohol use in early and mid-adolescence: prospective cohort study

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