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Parental alcohol misuse and hazardous drinking among offspring in a general teenage population: gender-specific findings from the Young-HUNT 3 study

Haugland, Siri Håvås; Holmen, Turid Lingaas; Ravndal, Edle; Bratberg, Grete
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http://hdl.handle.net/11250/420986
Date
2013
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Original version
BMC Public Health 2013, 13(1140)   10.1186/1471-2458-13-1140
Abstract
Background: Parental alcohol misuse may negatively affect drinking behaviours among offspring, but it is unclear

to what extent influences are gender-specific and dependent upon the actual drinking behaviour measured. The

aim of this study was to investigate whether hazardous drinking among Norwegian teenage boys (N = 2538) and

girls (N = 2494) was associated with paternal and maternal alcohol misuse (CAGE).

Methods: Definitions of hazardous drinking among offspring were based on self-reported alcohol consumption

(in litres a year), frequency of drinking, and frequency of drunkenness. Based on this information, two composite

measures of hazardous drinking were also constructed. Cross-sectional data from the Norwegian Young-HUNT 3

survey (2006–2008) were linked to information from biological parents who participated in the adult part of the

HUNT study.

Results: Logistic regression analyses showed that both boys and girls with alcohol misusing fathers were more

likely to report high levels of alcohol intake compared to others of the same age and gender. This was contrary to

boys with misusing mothers, who reported less alcohol consumption than other boys. Among girls, but not boys,

high frequency of drunkenness was associated with maternal as well as paternal misuse.

Conclusions: This study suggests that adolescent hazardous drinking is more prevalent among boys and girls with

alcohol misusing parents versus those whose parents do not misuse alcohol. However, findings were gender

specific and varied depending on the drinking outcomes under investigation. More evidence-based knowledge in

this field is of great importance for better understanding the possible role paternal and maternal alcohol misuse

may play in the development of hazardous alcohol drinking patterns among adolescent boys and girls.
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BioMed Central
Journal
BMC Public Health

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