To Cause Harm and to be Harmed by Others: New Perspectives on Alcohol’s Harms to Others (original) (raw)
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To Cause Harm and to be Harmed by Others: New Perspectives on Alcohol's Harms to Others
Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment, 2015
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.
Experienced Harm from Other People's Drinking: A Comparison of Northern European Countries
Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment, 2015
ObjeCtIve: This study addresses how experienced harm from other people's drinking varies between six Northern European countries by comparing 1) the prevalence of experienced harm and 2) the correlates of harm. MethOd: The data comprise 18-69-year olds who participated in general population surveys in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and Scotland during the period 2008-2013. Comparative data were available on five types of harm: physical abuse, damage of clothes/belongings, verbal abuse, being afraid, and being kept awake at night. results: This study shows that harms from other's drinking are commonly experienced in all six countries. Being kept awake at night is the most common harm, while being physically harmed is the least common. The proportions that reported at least one of the five problems were highest in Finland and Iceland and lowest in Norway, but also relatively low in Sweden. Across countries, the level of harm was highest among young, single, urban residents, and for some countries among women and those who frequently drank to intoxication themselves. COnClusIOns: The study revealed large differences in the prevalence of harm in countries with fairly similar drinking cultures. However, the correlates of such experiences were similar across countries. Possible explanations of the findings are discussed, including differences in study design.
BMC Public Health, 2018
Background: Socioeconomic status (SES) is regarded as consisting of education, income and employment. However, the relationship of these three components to alcohol use behaviours, such as risky single occasion drinking (RSOD) is unclear. The aim of the present paper is to specify how the three SES components relate to RSOD in a cross-sectional survey sample of the Danish general population. Method: Data from a 2011 Danish national representative survey (n = 3600) was analysed by multiple logistic regression to assess the influence of three dimensions of individual SES (education, income, employment) on RSOD. Results: Components of SES were not found to be significantly associated with RSOD independently nor in combination. Conclusion: In the Danish context, SES was not associated with RSOD.
Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment, 2016
Background Epidemiological research on alcohol-related harm has long given priority to studies on harm to the drinker. A limitation with this perspective is that it neglects the harm drinking causes to people around the drinker, and thus, it fails to give a full picture of alcohol-related harm in society. Aim The aim was to compare the prevalence and correlates of experiencing harm from the heavy drinking by family and friends across the Nordic countries and Scotland and to discuss whether potential differences match levels of drinking, prevalence of binge drinking, and alcohol-related mortality. Data and Method Data from recent national general population surveys with similar questions on experiences of harms from the drinking of family and friends were collected from Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, and Scotland. Results National estimates of the overall population prevalence of harm from the drinking of family and friends ranged from 14% to 28% across these countries, w...
Concepts and items in measuring social harm from drinking
2000
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Those harmed by others' drinking in the US population are more depressed and distressed
Drug and Alcohol Review, 2015
Introduction and Aims-Harms from secondhand smoke were instrumental in enacting tobacco controls. Documenting negative impacts of harms from others' drinking (also called secondhand effects of drinking) is vital to increase political will for optimal alcohol policies. We assessed associations between harms from others' drinking and depression in a national sample of US adults. Design and Methods-Using the landline sample from the 2010 National Alcohol Survey (n = 5,388), weighted logistic regression models adjusting for alcohol problems in family of origin, respondent drinking pattern (volume and heaviest drinking), poverty, and other demographics were used to analyze associations between experiencing harms from others' drinking in the last 12 months with mild to moderate depression (CES-D8; alpha = .92; using cut point ≥8) and current distress. Results-Past 12-month family/marital harms, financial troubles, and vandalized property attributed to others' drinking each was associated with higher depression scores (all p < .001). In a combined model, all harms other than assaults remained highly significant. Similar patterns were found for current distress, but with some specific differences due to measurement and analytic approaches chosen also evident. Discussion-Findings suggest recently experiencing particular harms from others' drinking significantly affects mental health (both depression and distress). This confirms in a US population results recently reported in Australasian samples. Conclusions-Studies that quantify the extent to which heavy drinkers victimize others are important for alcohol policy.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2010
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Alcohol-related harm to others in England: a cross-sectional analysis of national survey data
BMJ Open, 2019
ObjectivesTo estimate the prevalence, the frequency and the perpetrators of alcohol-related harm to others (AHTO) and identify factors associated with experiencing harm and aggressive harm.DesignCross-sectional survey.SettingEngland.ParticipantsAdults (general population) aged 16 and over.Outcome measuresPercentage of respondents who experienced harm. Socioeconomic and demographic factors associated with the outcomes. Outcomes were (1) experienced harm/did not experience harm and (2) experienced aggressive harm (physically threatened, physically hurt and forced/pressured into something sexual)/did not experience an aggressive harm (no aggressive harm plus no harm at all).ResultsData to support a response rate calculation were not collected; 96.3% of people surveyed completed the AHTO questions. The weighted sample was 4874; 20.1% (95% CI 18.9 to 21.4, N=980) reported experiencing harm in the previous 12 months and 4.6% (95% CI 4.0 to 5.4, N=225) reported experiencing an aggressive h...