Recidivism in a cohort of young Australian drinking-drivers
| Autor: | Kaye Robinson, Ian Gordon, Maureen O'Brien, David Christie, Joseph N. Santamaria |
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| Rok vydání: | 1987 |
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Counseling Male Automobile Driving Recidivism Adolescent Alcohol Drinking Proportional hazards model business.industry Accidents Traffic Australia Poison control General Medicine medicine.disease Suicide prevention Occupational safety and health Socioeconomic Factors Cohort Injury prevention Medicine Conviction Humans Medical emergency business Demography |
| Zdroj: | The Medical journal of Australia. 147(9) |
| ISSN: | 0025-729X |
| Popis: | Four hundred and sixty-three men aged 18-25 years were referred to a counselling programme in 1975-1977, after their first conviction for an alcohol-related traffic offence. Records of the Victoria Police, and those of the Motor Registration Board, were searched for subsequent alcohol-related traffic offences up to February 1984. Those subjects who had left the State of Victoria or had died were identified, and a "survival" curve was constructed where survival implied freedom from reconviction for an alcohol-related traffic offence. By means of Cox's proportional hazards model, the rate ratios of a number of predictor variables of recidivism were calculated; those of significance were the number of drinks per week, social class, and a history of "family troubles with drinking". Reduction of alcohol consumption may be a more appropriate goal in programmes that are concerned with the counselling of young drinking-drivers than is attempted modification of the drinking-driving nexus. |
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