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Multilevel analysis of situational drinking among Canadian undergraduates.
Full Abstract
Using a multi-level approach, we examined the contribution of drinking setting characteristics and of individual characteristics on the alcohol intake per drinking occasion. The data are drawn from the Canadian Campus Survey, a national mail survey conducted in 1998 with a random sample of 8,864 students in 18 universities. For each student, up to five drinking occasions were investigated, resulting in 26,348 drinking occasions among 6,850 drinkers. At the individual level this study focused on the university life experience. At the situational level, information about alcohol intake was recorded relative to why, when, where and with whom drinking occurred. Our results show that drinking setting is as important as the individual characteristics in explaining the alcohol intake per occasion. Policies aimed at reducing students alcohol intake may be more beneficial if they address both situational and individual factors.
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Author/s: Demers, Andrée (A); Kairouz, Sylvia (S); Adlaf, Edward M (EM); Gliksman, Louis (L); Newton-Taylor, Brenda (B); Marchand, Alain (A);
Affiliation: Groupe de recherche sur les aspects sociaux de la santé et de la prévention, Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada. andree.demers(-atsign-)umontreal.ca
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article
Journal: Social science & medicine (1982) (Soc Sci Med), published in England. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2002-Aug; vol 55 (issue 3) : pp 415-24
Dates: Created 2002/07/29; Completed 2002/08/15; Revised 2004/11/17;
PMID: 12144149, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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