کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1070295 1486177 2011 7 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Alcohol and STI risk: Evidence from a New Zealand longitudinal birth cohort
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی علوم اعصاب رفتاری
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Alcohol and STI risk: Evidence from a New Zealand longitudinal birth cohort
چکیده انگلیسی

BackgroundThe present study examined the associations between involvement with alcohol and risks of sexually transmitted infection (STI) during adolescence and early adulthood.MethodsA 30-year prospective longitudinal study of the health, development, and adjustment of a birth cohort of 1265 New Zealand-born individuals. Measures included repeated assessments of frequency of alcohol use and number of symptoms of alcohol disorder from ages 15 to 30 and rates of STI from ages 14 to 30. Conditional fixed effects regression models augmented by observed time-dynamic covariate factors were used to control for non-observed confounding in the associations between alcohol and STI risk.ResultsThere were clear and consistent trends for increasing involvement with alcohol to be linked with increased risk of STI diagnoses. Adjustment of the associations for sources of non-observed confounding and time-dynamic covariate factors reduced the magnitude of these associations, but they remained statistically significant (p < .05).ConclusionsThe results of the current study support the notion of the existence of a causal pathway in which increasing levels of alcohol use and symptoms of alcohol abuse/dependence led to increased risks of STI exposure. There was little evidence to suggest that the links between alcohol involvement and STI risk could be fully explained by an underlying predisposing factor that increased the risks of both alcohol involvement and STI.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Drug and Alcohol Dependence - Volume 113, Issues 2–3, 15 January 2011, Pages 200–206
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