Physical, social, and perceived availabilities of alcohol and last month alcohol use in rural and small urban communities.
Physical, social, and perceived availabilities of alcohol and last month alcohol use in rural and small urban communities.
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身体、社会和感知的酒精可用性以及上个月农村和小城市社区的酒精使用情况。
DOI：
10.1007/s10964-010-9556-z
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发表时间：
2011
影响因子：
4.9
通讯作者：
Swaim,RandallC
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作者：
Stanley,LindaR;Henry,KimberlyL;Swaim,RandallC
本研究旨在提供一个更好的理解的因素，决定了感知的可用性的酒精和它的作用，预测青少年的酒精使用。参与者是来自美国219个农村社区的151，703名7 - 12年级学生（50%为女性），主要是墨西哥裔美国人和非洲裔美国人社区。多层次分析被用来估计酒精的感知可用性作为物理和社会可用性的措施和个人和社区一级的控制变量的函数。实际可用性的衡量标准是社区中的酒类销售点数量以及啤酒和葡萄酒是否在非酒类商店出售。社会可用性衡量的是社会或家庭群体对酒精的可用性。上个月，酒精使用量被估计为身体，社会和感知可用性和控制变量的函数。身体可用性与感知可用性或最近饮酒的关系不大，而社会可用性是两者的强预测因子。在个人和社区层面的感知可用性是显着的预测上个月的酒精使用。研究结果表明，改变酒精的感知和实际可用性可能会对青少年饮酒水平产生强烈影响。
This study seeks to provide a greater understanding of the factors that determine the perceived availability of alcohol and its role in predicting adolescents’ alcohol use. Participants were 151,703 7th–12th grade students (50% female) from a sample of 219 rural communities across the United States, with oversampling for predominantly Mexican-American and African-American communities. Multilevel analysis was used to estimate the perceived availability of alcohol as a function of physical and social availability measures and individual and community-level control variables. Physical availability was measured as the number of alcohol outlets in the community and whether beer and wine were sold in non-liquor stores. Social availability measured the availability of alcohol from social or family groups. Last month alcohol use was then estimated as a function of physical, social and perceived availabilities and control variables. Physical availability had little relationship to perceived availability or recent alcohol use while social availability was a strong predictor of both. Perceived availabilities at the individual and community levels were significant in predicting last month alcohol use. The findings suggest that altering both perceived and actual availability of alcohol can potentially have strong effects on the levels of adolescent alcohol use.