2023/11/04 by John Holmes, Alessandro Sasso, Mónica Hernández Alava +4 · 1 voice · 7 citations
Mathematics · Medicine · Psychology · #Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects #Artificial intelligence #Class (philosophy) #Computer science #Culture change #Demography #Developmental psychology #HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk #Latent class model #Latent growth modeling #Longitudinal study #Mathematics #Psychology #Social science #Sociology #Stability (learning theory) #Statistics #Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
paper · doi:10.1016/j.ssmph.2023.101548
published in SSM - Population Health 24, 101548 (Elsevier BV)
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Theories of practice can support understanding of health-related behaviours, but few studies use quantitative methods to understand time-trends in practices. This paper describes changes in the prevalence and performance of alcohol drinking practices in Great Britain between 2009 and 2019. Latent class analyses of annual cross-sectional data collected between 2009 and 2019. The data come from a one-week retrospective diary survey of adults resident in Great Britain. It contains 604,578 drinking occasions reported by 213,470 adults (18+) who consumed alcohol in the diary-week. The measures describe occasion characteristics including companions, location, motivation, timings, accompanying activities and alcohol consumed. We estimate separate latent class models for each year and for off-trade only (e.g. home), on-trade only (e.g. bar) and mixed-trade occasions. We identified fifteen practices; four off-trade only, eight on-trade only and three mixed-trade. The prevalence of practices was largely stable over time except for shifts away from drinking with a partner and towards drinking alone in the off-trade, and shifts away from Big nights out and towards other forms of heavy drinking in the on-trade. We identified five key trends in the performance of practices: (i) spirits increasingly replaced wine as the main beverage consumed in occasions; (ii) home-drinking moved away from routinised wine-drinking with meals on weekdays and towards spirits-drinking on weekends; (iii) the Male friends at the pub practice changed less than other pub-drinking practices; (iv) Big nights out started later, often in nightclubs, and involved less pub-drinking or heavy drinking and (v) the meal-based and Going out with partner practice formats showed few changes over time. Key recent trends in British drinking practices include a decline in routinised wine-drinking at home, a transformation of big nights out and a mixture of stability and change in pub- and meal-based practices.