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01-11-2020 | Original article

Socio-economic differences in factors associated with alcohol use among adolescents in Slovenia: a cross-sectional study

Authors: Emina Mehanović, Matej Košir, Sanela Talić, Helena Jeriček Klanšček, Federica Vigna-Taglianti

Published in: International Journal of Public Health | Issue 8/2020

Abstract

Objectives

This paper aims to investigate the association of parental, friends, and personal factors with the risk of alcohol use in a sample of Slovenian adolescents, and whether these associations differ by socio-economic status of the school area (SES).

Methods

The survey involved 2946 students of 44 Slovenian primary schools in the school year 2010/2011. The association between sociodemographic characteristics, parental alcohol use and permissiveness to drink, parental monitoring, perception of friends' alcohol use, beliefs towards alcohol, self-esteem and refusal skills, and the probability of recent alcohol use was evaluated through multiple multilevel logistic regression analysis.

Results

Parental alcohol use, parental permissiveness to drink alcohol, low parental monitoring, perception of friends’ alcohol use, positive beliefs towards alcohol use, and low refusal skills were significantly associated with the risk of alcohol use. Parental drinking and permissive attitudes were stronger correlates of alcohol use among adolescents of middle and low SES schools, while friends’ alcohol use and personal factors among adolescents of high SES schools.

Conclusions

Alcohol prevention programs should be tailored to school socio-economic environment taking into account friends and personal determinants among high SES, and parental factors among low SES school students.

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Title: Socio-economic differences in factors associated with alcohol use among adolescents in Slovenia: a cross-sectional study
Authors: Emina Mehanović
Matej Košir
Sanela Talić
Helena Jeriček Klanšček
Federica Vigna-Taglianti
Publication date: 01-11-2020
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Published in: International Journal of Public Health / Issue 8/2020
Print ISSN: 1661-8556
Electronic ISSN: 1661-8564
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-020-01460-w

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Socio-economic differences in factors associated with alcohol use among adolescents in Slovenia: a cross-sectional study

Abstract

Objectives

Methods

Results

Conclusions

At a glance: The STEP trials

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Abstract

Objectives

Methods

Results

Conclusions

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