Alcohol use among school-going adolescents in Harare, Zimbabwe: results from the 2003 Global School-Based Health Survey
Data from the Global School-Based Health Survey (2003) were analysed to estimate the proportions of relevant socio-demographic and behavioural characteristics. Of the 1997 students who participated in the survey, 15.6% (17.1% males and 14.0% females) reported alcohol consumption. Factors associated...
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Published in | Tanzania journal of health research Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 11 - 16 |
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Main Authors | , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
Tanzania
Health User's Trust Fund (HRUTF)
2009
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Summary: | Data from the Global School-Based Health Survey (2003) were analysed to
estimate the proportions of relevant socio-demographic and behavioural
characteristics. Of the 1997 students who participated in the survey,
15.6% (17.1% males and 14.0% females) reported alcohol consumption.
Factors associated with consumption of alcohol use were being worried,
bullied, smoking cigarettes, truant, and lack of parental supervision.
Students who were never worried were 49% (AOR=0.51 [95%CI (0.36,
0.72)]) less likely to consume alcohol compared to students who were
most of the time or always worried. Similarly, students who were never
bullied were 42% (AOR=0.57 [95%CI (0.42, 0.77)]) less likely to take
alcohol compared to students who were bullied at least six times in the
previous one month to the survey. Compared to students who smoked
cigarettes, non-smokers were 71% (AOR=0.29 [95%CI (0.21, 0.41)]) less
likely to consume alcohol. Compared to students who always received
parental supervision, students who rarely received parental supervision
were more likely (AOR=1.85 [95%CI (1.19, 2.90)] to consume alcohol, and
those students who sometimes received parental supervision were less
likely (AOR=0.70 [95%CI (0.50, 0.98)] to consume alcohol. There is a
need to implement public health interventions with special attention to
the determinants of alcohol consumption in this age group. |
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ISSN: | 1821-6404 |
DOI: | 10.4314/thrb.v11i1.43244 |