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Longitudinal associations with alcohol consumption during the first COVID-19 lockdown: Associations with mood, drinking motives, context of drinking, and mental health
BACKGROUND: Coronavirus (COVID-19) resulted in lockdown measures in the UK, which has impacted alcohol use. Alcohol is often used as a coping mechanism and there are public health concerns regarding excessive consumption due to the pandemic. We aimed to longitudinally assess drinking behaviors, and...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8567536/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34315105 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.108913 |
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author | Irizar, Patricia Jones, Andrew Christiansen, Paul Goodwin, Laura Gage, Suzanne H Roberts, Carl Knibb, Graeme Cooke, Richard Rose, Abigail K |
author_facet | Irizar, Patricia Jones, Andrew Christiansen, Paul Goodwin, Laura Gage, Suzanne H Roberts, Carl Knibb, Graeme Cooke, Richard Rose, Abigail K |
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description | BACKGROUND: Coronavirus (COVID-19) resulted in lockdown measures in the UK, which has impacted alcohol use. Alcohol is often used as a coping mechanism and there are public health concerns regarding excessive consumption due to the pandemic. We aimed to longitudinally assess drinking behaviors, and associated factors, during the first UK government-mandated lockdown. METHODS: An online survey was distributed through social media (8(th) April 2020, onwards). Fortnightly follow up surveys were emailed to participants. The primary outcome measure was ‘weekly unit consumption’ and data was collected on a range of potentially related factors: demographics, factors relating to COVID-19 (e.g., health, work status), drinking motives, context of drinking, drinking intentions, mood, depression and anxiety. FINDINGS: A total of 539 self-selected participants completed the baseline survey, with 186 completing at least 3 follow up surveys for multilevel modelling analysis. Personal coping motives, anxiety, drinking at home alone, and drinking at home with others were positively associated with alcohol consumption during lockdown. The following baseline measures also predicted increased consumption: male gender, lower education, and higher AUDIT scores (based on behavior prior to lockdown). Findings were consistent when utilizing an inverse probability weight to account for predictors of attrition (female, younger age, higher baseline AUDIT scores). CONCLUSIONS: Those already drinking at hazardous levels were more likely to increase their consumption, as were those who were drinking to cope. As we recover from the pandemic, there is a need for widespread alcohol support, and certain groups may need targeted support. |
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spelling | pubmed-85675362021-11-05 Longitudinal associations with alcohol consumption during the first COVID-19 lockdown: Associations with mood, drinking motives, context of drinking, and mental health Irizar, Patricia Jones, Andrew Christiansen, Paul Goodwin, Laura Gage, Suzanne H Roberts, Carl Knibb, Graeme Cooke, Richard Rose, Abigail K Drug Alcohol Depend Article BACKGROUND: Coronavirus (COVID-19) resulted in lockdown measures in the UK, which has impacted alcohol use. Alcohol is often used as a coping mechanism and there are public health concerns regarding excessive consumption due to the pandemic. We aimed to longitudinally assess drinking behaviors, and associated factors, during the first UK government-mandated lockdown. METHODS: An online survey was distributed through social media (8(th) April 2020, onwards). Fortnightly follow up surveys were emailed to participants. The primary outcome measure was ‘weekly unit consumption’ and data was collected on a range of potentially related factors: demographics, factors relating to COVID-19 (e.g., health, work status), drinking motives, context of drinking, drinking intentions, mood, depression and anxiety. FINDINGS: A total of 539 self-selected participants completed the baseline survey, with 186 completing at least 3 follow up surveys for multilevel modelling analysis. Personal coping motives, anxiety, drinking at home alone, and drinking at home with others were positively associated with alcohol consumption during lockdown. The following baseline measures also predicted increased consumption: male gender, lower education, and higher AUDIT scores (based on behavior prior to lockdown). Findings were consistent when utilizing an inverse probability weight to account for predictors of attrition (female, younger age, higher baseline AUDIT scores). CONCLUSIONS: Those already drinking at hazardous levels were more likely to increase their consumption, as were those who were drinking to cope. As we recover from the pandemic, there is a need for widespread alcohol support, and certain groups may need targeted support. Elsevier B.V. 2021-09-01 2021-07-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8567536/ /pubmed/34315105 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.108913 Text en © 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Irizar, Patricia Jones, Andrew Christiansen, Paul Goodwin, Laura Gage, Suzanne H Roberts, Carl Knibb, Graeme Cooke, Richard Rose, Abigail K Longitudinal associations with alcohol consumption during the first COVID-19 lockdown: Associations with mood, drinking motives, context of drinking, and mental health |
title | Longitudinal associations with alcohol consumption during the first COVID-19 lockdown: Associations with mood, drinking motives, context of drinking, and mental health |
title_full | Longitudinal associations with alcohol consumption during the first COVID-19 lockdown: Associations with mood, drinking motives, context of drinking, and mental health |
title_fullStr | Longitudinal associations with alcohol consumption during the first COVID-19 lockdown: Associations with mood, drinking motives, context of drinking, and mental health |
title_full_unstemmed | Longitudinal associations with alcohol consumption during the first COVID-19 lockdown: Associations with mood, drinking motives, context of drinking, and mental health |
title_short | Longitudinal associations with alcohol consumption during the first COVID-19 lockdown: Associations with mood, drinking motives, context of drinking, and mental health |
title_sort | longitudinal associations with alcohol consumption during the first covid-19 lockdown: associations with mood, drinking motives, context of drinking, and mental health |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8567536/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34315105 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.108913 |
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