RT Journal Article
T1 Heavy drinking and alcohol-related injuries in college students
A1 Moure Rodríguez, Lucía
A1 Caamaño Isorna, Francisco
A1 Doallo Pesado, Sonia
A1 Juan-Salvadores, Pablo
A1 Corral Varela, María Montserrat
A1 Rodríguez Holguín, Socorro
A1 Cadaveira Mahía, Fernando
K1 Alcohol drinking
K1 Epidemiology
K1 Injuries
K1 Adolescents
K1 Cohort studies
K1 Primary prevention
K1 Alcohol
K1 Epidemiología
K1 Lesión
K1 Estudio de cohorte
K1 Adolescencia
K1 Prevención primaria
AB Objective: The main objective of this study is to evaluate the effect of heavy drinking on alcohol-related injuries.Material and methods: We carried out an open cohort study among university students in Spain (n = 1,382). Heavy drinking and alcohol-related injuries were measured by administrating AUDIT questionnaires to every participant at the ages of 18, 20, 22 and 24. For data analysis we used a Multilevel Logistic Regression for repeated measures adjusting for consumption of alcohol and cannabis.Results: The response rate at the beginning of the study was 99.6% (1,369 students). The incidence rate of alcohol-related injuries was 3.2 per 100 students year. After adjusting for alcohol consumption and cannabis use, the multivariate model revealed that a high  frequency of heavy drinking was a risk factor for alcohol-related injuries (Odds Ratio = 3.89 [95%CI: 2.16 – 6.99]). The proportion of alcohol-related injuries in exposed subjects attributable to heavy drinking was 59.78% [95%CI: 32.75 – 75.94] while the population attributable fraction was 45.48% [95%CI: 24.91 – 57.77].Conclusion: We can conclude that heavy drinking leads to an increase of alcohol-related injuries. This shows a new dimension on the consequences of this public concern already related with a variety of health and social problems. Furthermore, our results allow us to suggest that about half of alcohol-related injuries could be avoided by removing this consumption pattern.
PB Elsevier España, S.L.U.
PB Sociedad Española de Salud Pública y Administración Sanitaria (SESPAS)
SN 0213-9111
YR 2014
FD 2014
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/16837
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/16837
LA eng
NO Moure-Rodriguez L; Caamano-Isorna F; Doallo S; Juan-Salvadores P; Corral M; Rodriguez Holguín S; Cadaveira F (2014). Heavy drinking and alcohol-related injuries in college students. Gaceta Sanitaria, 28, 376-380. Doi: 10.1016/j.gaceta.2014.02.017
NO The study was funded by a grant from the Spanish National Plan on Drugs (N.P.D) (2005/PN014) and by a grant from MICINN PSI2011-22575
DS Minerva
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