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Gender differences and gender convergence in alcohol use over the past three decades (1984–2008), The HUNT Study, Norway

BACKGROUND: To examine changes in men‘s and women’s drinking in Norway over a 20-year period, in order to learn whether such changes have led to gender convergence in alcohol drinking. METHODS: Repeated cross-sectional studies (in 1984–86, 1995–97, and 2006–08) of a large general population living i...

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Autores principales: Bratberg, Grete Helen, C Wilsnack, Sharon, Wilsnack, Richard, Håvås Haugland, Siri, Krokstad, Steinar, Sund, Erik Reidar, Bjørngaard, Johan Haakon
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4974746/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27492155
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3384-3
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author Bratberg, Grete Helen
C Wilsnack, Sharon
Wilsnack, Richard
Håvås Haugland, Siri
Krokstad, Steinar
Sund, Erik Reidar
Bjørngaard, Johan Haakon
author_facet Bratberg, Grete Helen
C Wilsnack, Sharon
Wilsnack, Richard
Håvås Haugland, Siri
Krokstad, Steinar
Sund, Erik Reidar
Bjørngaard, Johan Haakon
author_sort Bratberg, Grete Helen
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description BACKGROUND: To examine changes in men‘s and women’s drinking in Norway over a 20-year period, in order to learn whether such changes have led to gender convergence in alcohol drinking. METHODS: Repeated cross-sectional studies (in 1984–86, 1995–97, and 2006–08) of a large general population living in a geographically defined area (county) in Norway. Information about alcohol drinking is based on self-report questionnaires. Not all measures were assessed in all three surveys. RESULTS: Adult alcohol drinking patterns have changed markedly over a 20-year period. Abstaining has become rarer while consumption and rates of recent drinking and problematic drinking have increased. Most changes were in the same direction for men and women, but women have moved towards men’s drinking patterns in abstaining, recent drinking, problematic drinking and consumption. Intoxication (among recent drinkers) has decreased in both genders, but more in men than in women. The declines in gender differences, however, were age-specific and varied depending on which drinking behavior and which beverage was taken into account. CONCLUSIONS: There has been a gender convergence in most drinking behaviours, including lifetime history of problem drinking, over the past 2–3 decades in this Norwegian general population, but the reasons for this convergence appear to be complex. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12889-016-3384-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-49747462016-08-06 Gender differences and gender convergence in alcohol use over the past three decades (1984–2008), The HUNT Study, Norway Bratberg, Grete Helen C Wilsnack, Sharon Wilsnack, Richard Håvås Haugland, Siri Krokstad, Steinar Sund, Erik Reidar Bjørngaard, Johan Haakon BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: To examine changes in men‘s and women’s drinking in Norway over a 20-year period, in order to learn whether such changes have led to gender convergence in alcohol drinking. METHODS: Repeated cross-sectional studies (in 1984–86, 1995–97, and 2006–08) of a large general population living in a geographically defined area (county) in Norway. Information about alcohol drinking is based on self-report questionnaires. Not all measures were assessed in all three surveys. RESULTS: Adult alcohol drinking patterns have changed markedly over a 20-year period. Abstaining has become rarer while consumption and rates of recent drinking and problematic drinking have increased. Most changes were in the same direction for men and women, but women have moved towards men’s drinking patterns in abstaining, recent drinking, problematic drinking and consumption. Intoxication (among recent drinkers) has decreased in both genders, but more in men than in women. The declines in gender differences, however, were age-specific and varied depending on which drinking behavior and which beverage was taken into account. CONCLUSIONS: There has been a gender convergence in most drinking behaviours, including lifetime history of problem drinking, over the past 2–3 decades in this Norwegian general population, but the reasons for this convergence appear to be complex. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12889-016-3384-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2016-08-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4974746/ /pubmed/27492155 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3384-3 Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Bratberg, Grete Helen
C Wilsnack, Sharon
Wilsnack, Richard
Håvås Haugland, Siri
Krokstad, Steinar
Sund, Erik Reidar
Bjørngaard, Johan Haakon
Gender differences and gender convergence in alcohol use over the past three decades (1984–2008), The HUNT Study, Norway
title Gender differences and gender convergence in alcohol use over the past three decades (1984–2008), The HUNT Study, Norway
title_full Gender differences and gender convergence in alcohol use over the past three decades (1984–2008), The HUNT Study, Norway
title_fullStr Gender differences and gender convergence in alcohol use over the past three decades (1984–2008), The HUNT Study, Norway
title_full_unstemmed Gender differences and gender convergence in alcohol use over the past three decades (1984–2008), The HUNT Study, Norway
title_short Gender differences and gender convergence in alcohol use over the past three decades (1984–2008), The HUNT Study, Norway
title_sort gender differences and gender convergence in alcohol use over the past three decades (1984–2008), the hunt study, norway
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4974746/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27492155
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3384-3
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