Understanding alcohol and other drug use during the event

The effects of extended public transport operating hours and venue lockout policies on drinking-related harms in Melbourne, Australia: Results from SimDrink, an agent-based simulation model

“…The approach taken is novel because it involves simulating and tracking a population on an hourly time scale throughout the course of a night. This is consistent with the shift in contemporary alcohol and other drug research towards considering the consumption event as the unit of analysis (Bøhling, 2014;Dilkes-Frayne, 2014;Kuntsche, Dietze, & Jenkinson, 2014); researchers are attempting to understanding individuals' decisions and their consequences within a single drinking event (a 'big night out'). By using this type of simulation model to compare hypothetical time-specific (i.e.…”

Correlates of alcohol consumption on heavy drinking occasions of young risky drinkers: event versus personal characteristics

“…Households were first screened for potential participants aged between 18 and 25 years, after which potential participants were screened further for consumption in excess of 10 Australian Standard Drinks (ASD; 10 g ethanol) for males or in excess of seven ASD for females in a single occasion in the previous year. The original response rate was 52% (including in the base the estimated proportion of eligible cases among those of unknown eligibility) (response = rate ). Further details on the methods used in recruiting and surveying the sample have been described elsewhere .…”

“…Although recent evidence suggests that rates of RSOD among young people have been declining globally , the consequences of RSOD by young people remain significant, including morbidity and mortality related directly to the RSOD occasion itself, as well as serving to entrench high levels of consumption that that lead to harms in later life . The importance of RSOD is recognized in new research that has focused upon specific RSOD events, with a view to understanding the actual consumption behaviours that take place during these events , the links to harm and possible points of intervention .…”

A System Dynamic Model of Drinking Events: Multi‐Level Ecological Approach

“…Although there is a small body of system dynamic alcohol studies at the community level (Gorman et al, 2001;Gruenewald, 2006;Holder, 2006;Scribner et al, 2009) and some recent notable exceptions employing agent-based modelling (Gorman et al, 2006;Fitzpatrick and Martinez, 2012) at the population and event levels, dynamical modelling in alcohol research is still largely underdeveloped. At the event level, this may well be an artefact of the difficultly of measuring drinking events (Clapp et al, 2007;Kuntsche et al, 2014).…”