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Changes in Alcohol Consumption during the COVID-19 Pandemic Are Dependent on Initial Consumption Level: Findings from Eight European Countries

Evidence suggests that changes in alcohol consumption during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic were unevenly distributed over consumer groups. We investigated possible inter-country differences in how changes in alcohol consumption are contingent on initial consumption (before or at the star...

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Autores principales: Rossow, Ingeborg, Bartak, Miroslav, Bloomfield, Kim, Braddick, Fleur, Bye, Elin K., Kilian, Carolin, López-Pelayo, Hugo, Mäkelä, Pia, Moan, Inger Synnøve, Moskalewicz, Jacek, Petruzelka, Benjamin, Rogalewicz, Vladimír, Manthey, Jakob
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8508389/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34639847
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910547
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author Rossow, Ingeborg
Bartak, Miroslav
Bloomfield, Kim
Braddick, Fleur
Bye, Elin K.
Kilian, Carolin
López-Pelayo, Hugo
Mäkelä, Pia
Moan, Inger Synnøve
Moskalewicz, Jacek
Petruzelka, Benjamin
Rogalewicz, Vladimír
Manthey, Jakob
author_facet Rossow, Ingeborg
Bartak, Miroslav
Bloomfield, Kim
Braddick, Fleur
Bye, Elin K.
Kilian, Carolin
López-Pelayo, Hugo
Mäkelä, Pia
Moan, Inger Synnøve
Moskalewicz, Jacek
Petruzelka, Benjamin
Rogalewicz, Vladimír
Manthey, Jakob
author_sort Rossow, Ingeborg
collection PubMed
description Evidence suggests that changes in alcohol consumption during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic were unevenly distributed over consumer groups. We investigated possible inter-country differences in how changes in alcohol consumption are contingent on initial consumption (before or at the start of the pandemic), and how changes in consumption translate into possible changes in the prevalence of heavy drinking. We used data from the European Survey on Alcohol use and COVID-19 (ESAC) conducted in Czechia, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Norway, Poland, Spain, and the UK (N = 31921). Past-year alcohol consumption and changes in consumption were measured by AUDIT-C. Drinking habits were compared according to percentiles of pre-pandemic consumption levels, below versus above the 90th percentile. Across countries, drinkers in the highest 10% for pre-pandemic consumption increased their drinking during the pandemic, whereas absolute changes among those initially drinking below this level were modest. The percentage of people reporting >28 alcohol units/week increased significantly in seven of eight countries. During the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, alcohol consumption in the upper decile of the drinkers increased as did the prevalence of heavy drinkers, in contrast with a declining consumption in other groups in the sample.
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spelling pubmed-85083892021-10-13 Changes in Alcohol Consumption during the COVID-19 Pandemic Are Dependent on Initial Consumption Level: Findings from Eight European Countries Rossow, Ingeborg Bartak, Miroslav Bloomfield, Kim Braddick, Fleur Bye, Elin K. Kilian, Carolin López-Pelayo, Hugo Mäkelä, Pia Moan, Inger Synnøve Moskalewicz, Jacek Petruzelka, Benjamin Rogalewicz, Vladimír Manthey, Jakob Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Evidence suggests that changes in alcohol consumption during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic were unevenly distributed over consumer groups. We investigated possible inter-country differences in how changes in alcohol consumption are contingent on initial consumption (before or at the start of the pandemic), and how changes in consumption translate into possible changes in the prevalence of heavy drinking. We used data from the European Survey on Alcohol use and COVID-19 (ESAC) conducted in Czechia, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Norway, Poland, Spain, and the UK (N = 31921). Past-year alcohol consumption and changes in consumption were measured by AUDIT-C. Drinking habits were compared according to percentiles of pre-pandemic consumption levels, below versus above the 90th percentile. Across countries, drinkers in the highest 10% for pre-pandemic consumption increased their drinking during the pandemic, whereas absolute changes among those initially drinking below this level were modest. The percentage of people reporting >28 alcohol units/week increased significantly in seven of eight countries. During the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, alcohol consumption in the upper decile of the drinkers increased as did the prevalence of heavy drinkers, in contrast with a declining consumption in other groups in the sample. MDPI 2021-10-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8508389/ /pubmed/34639847 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910547 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Rossow, Ingeborg
Bartak, Miroslav
Bloomfield, Kim
Braddick, Fleur
Bye, Elin K.
Kilian, Carolin
López-Pelayo, Hugo
Mäkelä, Pia
Moan, Inger Synnøve
Moskalewicz, Jacek
Petruzelka, Benjamin
Rogalewicz, Vladimír
Manthey, Jakob
Changes in Alcohol Consumption during the COVID-19 Pandemic Are Dependent on Initial Consumption Level: Findings from Eight European Countries
title Changes in Alcohol Consumption during the COVID-19 Pandemic Are Dependent on Initial Consumption Level: Findings from Eight European Countries
title_full Changes in Alcohol Consumption during the COVID-19 Pandemic Are Dependent on Initial Consumption Level: Findings from Eight European Countries
title_fullStr Changes in Alcohol Consumption during the COVID-19 Pandemic Are Dependent on Initial Consumption Level: Findings from Eight European Countries
title_full_unstemmed Changes in Alcohol Consumption during the COVID-19 Pandemic Are Dependent on Initial Consumption Level: Findings from Eight European Countries
title_short Changes in Alcohol Consumption during the COVID-19 Pandemic Are Dependent on Initial Consumption Level: Findings from Eight European Countries
title_sort changes in alcohol consumption during the covid-19 pandemic are dependent on initial consumption level: findings from eight european countries
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8508389/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34639847
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910547
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