To Cause Harm and to be Harmed by Others: New Perspectives on Alcohol’s Harms to Others (original) (raw)
Abstract
Objective To examine how sociodemographic factors and alcohol consumption are related to a four-way typology of causing harm to others and/or being harmed by othersș and one's own drinking. Data and Methods Data from the 2011 Danish national survey ( n = 2,569) were analyzed with multinomial logistic regression. Results Younger age and heavy drinking were significant correlates of both causing harm and being harmed. Women and better educated respondents were more likely to report negative effects on relationship and family from another's drinking. Better educated respondents had higher risks for work, financial, or injury harms from another's drinking. Mean alcohol consumption and risky single occasion drinking were related to both causing harm and being harmed from one's own drinking. Conclusions Drinking variables were the strongest correlates of causing harm and being harmed. Efforts to reduce risky drinking may also help reduce exposures to collateral harm.
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Table 1. Descriptive statistics (percentages) of study sample (total n= 2,567) (unweighted).
Table 2. Overview of frequency counts (and percentages) of causing harm/being harmed combinations (unweighted).
Notes: In the multinomial logistic regression, the reference group is “not causing harm/not being harmed.” @Includes single, widow, divorced, and separated. "The likelihood ratio test provides evidence supporting the inclusion of alcohol variables in the model. *P < 0.05; **P < 0.01; ***P < 0.001. Table 3. Multinomial logistic regression results for social characteristics associated with marriage/relationship and family harms (odds ratios, 95% confidence intervals).
Table 4. Multinomial logistic regression results for social characteristics associated with work, finance, or injury harms (odds ratios, 95% confidence intervals). Notes: In the multinomial logistic regression, the reference group is “not causing harm/not being harmed.” @Includes single, widow, divorced, and separated. ‘The likelihood ratio test provides evidence supporting the inclusion of alcohol variables in the model. “P < 0.05; “P < 0.01; “*P < 0.001.
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