TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2005//
TI  - School matters: drinking dimensions and their effects on alcohol-related problems among Ontario secondary school students
JO  - Alcohol and alcoholism
A1  - Rehm, Jürgen T.
A1  - Monga, Neerav
A1  - Adlaf, Edward M.
A1  - Taylor, Bruce
A1  - Bondy, S. J.
A1  - Fallu, Jean-Sebastien
SP  - 569
EP  - 574
VL  - 40
IS  - 6
N2  - AIMS: To test the hypotheses that average volume of alcohol consumption and patterns of drinking, each influence alcohol-related problems and that both act at individual and aggregate levels. METHODS: The 2003 cycle of the Ontario Student Drug Use Survey obtained self-administered questionnaires from a representative classroom-based survey of 2455 Ontario secondary school students (grades 9-12) from 74 schools, with a student completion rate of 72%. Average volume of alcohol consumption was assessed using a quantity-frequency measure. Heavy drinking occasions were operationalized by four dummy variables indicating less than monthly, monthly, weekly and daily consumption of five or more drinks per occasion, with never having a heavy drinking occasion serving as the reference group. Alcohol-related problems were measured by using seven items of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test. RESULTS: As hypothesized, both the average volume of alcohol consumption and patterns of drinking influenced alcohol-related problems at the student level, independently of each other. At the school level, both determinants significantly influenced the problems, but not when simultaneously entered into the equation. CONCLUSIONS: Future prevention of alcohol-related problems in adolescents should consider both the average volume and patterns of drinking. Both prevention and research should also try to include environmental determination of alcohol-related problems.
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SN  - 0735-0414
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alcalc/agh212
ID  - ref1
ER  -