Changing trends in adolescent alcohol use among Czech school-aged children from 1994 to 2014

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.jphres.org/index.php/jphres/article/view/1493/467" target="_blank" >https://www.jphres.org/index.php/jphres/article/view/1493/467</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/jphr.2019.1493" target="_blank" >10.4081/jphr.2019.1493</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Changing trends in adolescent alcohol use among Czech school-aged children from 1994 to 2014

Original language description

Background: For an efficient planning of public health policy, the regular monitoring over health-related behaviors among vulnerable population groups is necessary. The aim of this study is to examine the temporal trends in alcohol use among the Czech adolescent population. Design and methods: Data from the Health Behaviour in Schoolaged Children (HBSC) project conducted in Czechia from 1994 to 2014 were used. Adolescent alcohol use was assessed via two indicators: i) weekly alcohol use (beer, wine, and/or spirit), ii) repeated lifetime drunkenness (having been drunk on two or more occasions in life). Trends in alcohol use were modelled separately for boys and girls. Binary logistic regression was conducted with survey period as an independent predictor of the alcohol indicator. Results: There were significant changes in adolescent alcohol use since 1994. Between 1994 and 2010, there was a gradual upward in the prevalence. However, in the recent period of 2014, an unprecedented drop in alcohol use was recorded. Conclusions: Despite the significant drop in the prevalence of alcohol use among the Czech youth in recent years, alcohol drinking in adolescence remains an important challenge for the national health policy. Further research will show whether these changes in adolescent health-related behavior are of a temporary or a permanent nature.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30312 - Substance abuse

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA18-17564S" target="_blank" >GA18-17564S: Socio-economic determinants of premature mortality related to alcohol and tobacco use – spatially integrated approach</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Public Health Research

ISSN

2279-9036

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

8

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

IT - ITALY

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

26-32

UT code for WoS article

000466407100004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85066027711