TY - JOUR
T1 - Drunkenness and its association with health risk behaviors among adolescents and young adults in three Asian cities
T2 - Hanoi, Shanghai, Taipei
AU - Zhu, Qianqian
AU - Lou, Chaohua
AU - Gao, Ersheng
AU - Cheng, Yan
AU - Zabin, Laurie S.
AU - Emerson, Mark R.
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding for this study was provided by Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health , Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA (grant no. 979-2020 ).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Elsevier Ireland Ltd.
PY - 2015/2/1
Y1 - 2015/2/1
N2 - Purpose: To assess the prevalence of drunkenness among adolescents in Hanoi, Shanghai, and Taipei and explore the association between heavy drinking and other health risk behaviors. Methods: The data are drawn from the Three-city Collaborative Study of Adolescent Health, conducted in Hanoi, Shanghai, and Taipei in 2006. A sample of 17,016 adolescents and young adults, aged 15-24 years, was selected by multistage sampling. Descriptive analysis was used to estimate the proportion of drunkenness and other health risk behaviors. Multivariate logistic regression was used to investigate relationships between drunkenness and risky health behaviors. Results: The proportions of the sample getting drunk during the past month were 6.36%, 4.53%, and 8.47% in Hanoi, Shanghai, and Taipei, respectively. More males than females reported drunkenness in all three cities, with the difference highest in Hanoi (11.08% vs. 1.14%) and lowest in Taipei (9.69% vs. 7.18%). Different levels of relationship between drunkenness and health risk behaviors, such as anxiety, suicidal ideation, smoking, gambling, fighting, drinking and driving, and having sexual intercourse, were found across the three cities; an exception was nonuse of contraception. Conclusion: Drunkenness was positively associated with many health risk behaviors. It may serve as an indicator of other risky behaviors. Interventions to reduce drinking and drunkenness may contribute considerably to the prevention of other risk behaviors and to adolescent safety and well-being.
AB - Purpose: To assess the prevalence of drunkenness among adolescents in Hanoi, Shanghai, and Taipei and explore the association between heavy drinking and other health risk behaviors. Methods: The data are drawn from the Three-city Collaborative Study of Adolescent Health, conducted in Hanoi, Shanghai, and Taipei in 2006. A sample of 17,016 adolescents and young adults, aged 15-24 years, was selected by multistage sampling. Descriptive analysis was used to estimate the proportion of drunkenness and other health risk behaviors. Multivariate logistic regression was used to investigate relationships between drunkenness and risky health behaviors. Results: The proportions of the sample getting drunk during the past month were 6.36%, 4.53%, and 8.47% in Hanoi, Shanghai, and Taipei, respectively. More males than females reported drunkenness in all three cities, with the difference highest in Hanoi (11.08% vs. 1.14%) and lowest in Taipei (9.69% vs. 7.18%). Different levels of relationship between drunkenness and health risk behaviors, such as anxiety, suicidal ideation, smoking, gambling, fighting, drinking and driving, and having sexual intercourse, were found across the three cities; an exception was nonuse of contraception. Conclusion: Drunkenness was positively associated with many health risk behaviors. It may serve as an indicator of other risky behaviors. Interventions to reduce drinking and drunkenness may contribute considerably to the prevention of other risk behaviors and to adolescent safety and well-being.
KW - Adolescent
KW - Alcohol
KW - Drunkenness
KW - Eastern Asian city
KW - Heath risk behaviors
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U2 - 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2014.10.029
DO - 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2014.10.029
M3 - Article
C2 - 25499732
AN - SCOPUS:84921018634
SN - 0376-8716
VL - 147
SP - 251
EP - 256
JO - Drug and alcohol dependence
JF - Drug and alcohol dependence
ER -