Regional versus urban differences in teenage alcohol use: Does parental disapproval account for these differences?
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01/02/2016
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- Objective To investigate if parental disapproval of alcohol use accounts for differences in adolescent alcohol use across regional and urban communities. - Design Secondary data analysis of grade-level stratified data from a random sample of schools. - Setting High schools in Victoria, Australia. - Participants A random sample of 10273 adolescents from Grade 7 (mean age=12.51 years), 9 (14.46 years) and 11 (16.42 years). - Main outcome measures The key independent variables were parental disapproval of adolescent alcohol use and regionality (regional/ urban), and the dependent variable was past 30 days alcohol use. - Results After adjusting for potential confounders, adolescents in regional areas were more likely to use alcohol in the past 30 days (OR=1.83, 1.44 and 1.37 for Grades 7, 9 and 11, respectively, P<0.05), and their parents have a lower level of disapproval of their alcohol use (b=-0.12, -0.15 and -0.19 for Grades 7, 9 and 11, respectively, P<0.001). Bootstrapping analyses suggested that 8.37%, 23.30% and 39.22% of the effect of regionality on adolescent alcohol use was mediated by parental disapproval of alcohol use for Grades 7, 9 and 11 participants respectively (P<0.05). - Conclusions Adolescents in urban areas had a lower risk of alcohol use compared with their regional counterparts, and differences in parental disapproval of alcohol use contributed to this difference. |
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Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia |
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DOI:10.1111/ajr.12177 Chan, Gary C.K., Kelly, Adrian B., Connor, Jason P., Hall, Wayne, Young, Ross McD., Toumbourou, John W., & Williams, Joanne (2016) Regional versus urban differences in teenage alcohol use: Does parental disapproval account for these differences? Australian Journal of Rural Health, 24(1), pp. 3-8. http://purl.org/au-research/grants/ARC/DP130102015 |
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Copyright 2015 National Rural Health Alliance Inc |
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Faculty of Health; Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation |
Palavras-Chave | #111710 Health Counselling #Adolescence #Adolescent #Alcohol #Parental disapproval #Regional #Urban |
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Journal Article |