Temporal Patterns of Alcohol Consumption and Alcohol-Related Road Accidents in Young Swiss Men: Seasonal, Weekday and Public Holiday Effects

Autor: Gerhard Gmel, Natalia Estévez, Caroline Bähler, Meichun Mohler-Kuo, Simon Foster
Přispěvatelé: University of Zurich, Foster, Simon
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
Předmět:
Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Time Factors
Evening
Adolescent
Alcohol Drinking
Poison control
610 Medicine & health
Suicide prevention
Occupational safety and health
Cohort Studies
2738 Psychiatry and Mental Health
Young Adult
Surveys and Questionnaires
Environmental health
Injury prevention
Epidemiology
medicine
Humans
Holidays
Morning
business.industry
Accidents
Traffic
3005 Toxicology
2701 Medicine (miscellaneous)
10060 Epidemiology
Biostatistics and Prevention Institute (EBPI)
General Medicine
Accidents
Traffic/psychology
Accidents
Traffic/trends
Alcohol Drinking/epidemiology
Alcohol Drinking/psychology
Alcoholic Intoxication/diagnosis
Alcoholic Intoxication/epidemiology
Holidays/psychology
Seasons
Switzerland/epidemiology
business
Alcoholic Intoxication
human activities
Switzerland
Cohort study
Zdroj: Alcohol and Alcoholism (oxford, Oxfordshire), vol. 50, no. 5, pp. 565-572
Popis: AIMS: To assess seasonal, weekday, and public holiday effects on alcohol-related road accidents and drinking diaries among young Swiss men. METHODS: Federal road accident data (35,485 accidents) from Switzerland and drinking diary data from a large cohort of young Swiss men (11,930 subjects) were analysed for temporal effects by calendar week, weekday and public holiday (Christmas, New Years, National Day). Alcohol-related accidents were analysed using rate ratios for observed versus expected numbers of accidents and proportions of alcohol-related accidents relative to the total number. Drinking diaries were analysed for the proportion of drinkers, median number of drinks consumed, and the 90th percentile's number of drinks consumed. RESULTS: Several parallel peaks were identified in alcohol-related accidents and drinking diaries. These included increases on Fridays and Saturdays, with Saturday drinking extending until early Sunday morning, an increase during the summer on workdays but not weekends, an increase at the end of the year, and increases on public holidays and the evening before. CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest specific time-windows that are associated with increases in drinking and alcohol-related harm. Established prevention measures should be enforced during these time-windows to reduce associated peaks.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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