The impact of stressful life events on excessive alcohol consumption in the French population: findings from the GAZEL cohort study
Major life changes may play a causative role in health through lifestyle factors, such as alcohol. The objective was to examine the impact of stressful life events on heavy alcohol consumption among French adults. Trajectories of excessive alcohol consumption in 20,625 employees of the French nation...
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Veröffentlicht in: | PloS one 2014-01, Vol.9 (1), p.e87653-e87653 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Major life changes may play a causative role in health through lifestyle factors, such as alcohol. The objective was to examine the impact of stressful life events on heavy alcohol consumption among French adults.
Trajectories of excessive alcohol consumption in 20,625 employees of the French national gas and electricity company for up to 5 years before and 5 years after an event, with annual measurements from 1992. We used repeated measures analysis of time series data indexed to events, employing generalized estimating equations.
For women, excessive alcohol use increased before important purchase (p = 0.021), children leaving home (p |
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ISSN: | 1932-6203 1932-6203 |
DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0087653 |