Trends in alcohol use among Czech adolescents: findings from the HBSC study 2014-2022

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Alternative codes found

RIV/61989592:15260/25:73635156

Result on the web

<a href="https://cejph.szu.cz/artkey/cjp-202504-0002_trends-in-alcohol-use-among-czech-adolescents-findings-from-the-hbsc-study-2014-8211-2022.php" target="_blank" >https://cejph.szu.cz/artkey/cjp-202504-0002_trends-in-alcohol-use-among-czech-adolescents-findings-from-the-hbsc-study-2014-8211-2022.php</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.21101/cejph.a8822" target="_blank" >10.21101/cejph.a8822</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Trends in alcohol use among Czech adolescents: findings from the HBSC study 2014-2022

Original language description

OBJECTIVES: The present study aims to examine trends in adolescent alcohol use over the period from 2014 to 2022. METHODS: Data from the last three Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) surveys conducted in 2014, 2018 and 2022 were used for this study. Three measures of adolescent alcohol use have been chosen for analyses: lifetime alcohol use, last 30 days alcohol use, and repeated lifetime drunkenness. The analyses comprised calculation of period-specific prevalence estimates and testing of the significance of between-period changes using survey-adjusted logistic regression models. RESULTS: Comparing prevalence rates between the periods, consistent decrease in adolescent alcohol use becomes apparent, particularly for drop of rates in 2018 compared to those in 2014. The corresponding data on the prevalence of lifetime alcohol use among 13-year-old boys was 59.7% in 2014 and 44.2% in 2018; and among 15-year-old boys 80.4% in 2014 and 74.9% in 2018. For 13-year-old girls, the estimated prevalence was 46.9% in 2014 and 41.1% in 2018; and for 15-year-old girls 83.7% in 2014 and 75.9% in 2018. This is the case for repeated lifetime drunkenness, and the decrease is consistent across boys and girls, as well as the respective age groups. In survey waves 2018 and 2022, we do not see a statistically significant decline, but rather a stabilisation of assessed prevalence at a level from the previous wave of the study. CONCLUSIONS: The decline in alcohol use among Czech adolescents is part of a global trend of reducing alcohol drinking among young people, on the background of social mechanisms including the change of cultural status of alcohol and changes in young people&apos;s leisure preferences.

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/EH22_008%2F0004583" target="_blank" >EH22_008/0004583: Research of Excellence on Digital Technologies and Wellbeing</a><br>

Continuities

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

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Central European Journal of Public Health

ISSN

1210-7778

e-ISSN

1803-1048

Volume of the periodical

33

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

247-252

UT code for WoS article

001669496400003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105027821180