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    High alcohol use and misuse in a representative sample of in-school adolescents in the Seychelles

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    2019
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    Pengpid, Supa
    Peltzer, Karl
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    The goal of the study was to estimate the prevalence and correlates of alcohol use among adolescents in the 2015 Seychelles Global School-Based Student Health Survey (GSHS). In all, 2 540 students (median age = 14 years, interquartile range = 12–16) filled in a questionnaire in the cross-sectional GSHS. Results indicate that 47.6% were drinking alcohol in the past month, 42.6% reported lifetime drunkenness, 23.1% reported heavy drinking (≥2 alcoholic drinks/day in the past month), and 15.7% reported problem-drinking. In adjusted logistic regression analysis, older age, tobacco use, amphetamine use, sexual risk behaviour, school truancy, physical fighting, injury, and low parental support were associated with current drinking and/or drunkenness, heavy drinking, and problem-drinking. A high prevalence of alcohol consumption was found; calling for intervention programmes in preventing alcohol misuse
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10394/34253
    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14330237.2019.1677058
    https://doi.org/10.1080/14330237.2019.1677058
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