Alcohol use and COVID-19: three-year impact for the Czech Republic
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11110/25:10500572
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=9MG1-ztCt0" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=9MG1-ztCt0</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.21101/cejph.a8410" target="_blank" >10.21101/cejph.a8410</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Alcohol use and COVID-19: three-year impact for the Czech Republic
Original language description
Objectives: The aim of the study was to describe alcohol consumption and its changes in the Czech Republic during the period of governmental restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic. To this goal, an overview of the governmental measures that may have affected alcohol consumption was compiled from various sources (mostly media reports). Methods: The paper analyses three surveys where the group from Charles University, Prague, participated in design and execution: the European Study Group on Alcohol use and COVID-19 (ESAC) convenience online survey that (in Czechia) took place at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, in April through June 2020 (n = 1,434), a computer-assisted web interviews (CAWI) survey carried out in November 2021 (n = 790), and another CAWI survey carried out in November 2022 (n = 1,738). These are complemented by a brief overview of official data on alcohol sales between 2019 and 2021 in Czechia from two sources, Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic and the Nielsen IQ market research company. Results: Changes in alcohol use appeared to be distributed among the population unequally, when the pandemic influenced different population groups in a different way. In all three surveys, the majority of respondents reported no change in their drinking frequency or quantity. Decreases in alcohol use were more prevalent than increases. Most pronounced changes were detected in at-risk drinkers, who have increased their alcohol use. Official revenue data suggest a small reduction in total alcohol sales in 2019-2021. Conclusions: Our research results do not support the hypothesis that substantial and unexpected social and economic changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, along with corresponding measures, acted as stressors that would have caused the majority of people in Czechia changing their behaviour related to alcohol use; however, high-risk users increased their consumption.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - 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
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
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
2
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
122-131
UT code for WoS article
001555988900007
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105010782150