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Alcohol Use In Inpatient Psychiatric Clinicians
<p>Employee alcohol use is an important public health problem that has not been adequately studied. This may be due to stigma, privacy, and ethical issues associated with uncovering problematic drinking behavior in the workplace. The present study sought to estimate the current prevalence of …
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Caffeinated Alcohol Use in a Daily Context
<p>Caffeinated alcoholic beverage (CAB) use is associated with a range of substance-related problems. Few have examined socio-environmental and cognitive factors that may relate to CAB use and influence associations between use and negative consequences. Moreover, much research on CABs has been …
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Alcohol Use in Swedish Halls of Residence
In the year 2000, the alcohol habits of 1460 Swedish university students living in residence halls were assessed. The students had a mean age of 23.8 years, and 64% were male. The results from this baseline assessment show that the mean AUDIT score (± sd) was 10.3 ± 5.2 for males and 8.1 ± 4.7 for …
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Alcohol Use and Religiosity Among College Students
Alcohol use among college students is often in the news. Some scholars argue, with literature to support it, that problem drinking in college is just a media-driven myth (Lederman et al. 2004). Yet it is clear that college students do drink, some to excess. Various reasons are cited from alcohol …
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Leisure Involvement and Alcohol Use of Adolescents
… perceptions, leisure behaviors, and reported alcohol use. The sample consisted of 385 tenth and eleventh grade students of a semi-rural suburban community situated in the midwestern United States. Students completed a survey which included alcohol use items contained in the American Drug and …
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Adolescent development and parental alcohol use patterns
… increased attention has been directed toward alcoholism as a family system problem. Recent publications have identified characteristics of the "alcoholic family" system and a model of psychosocial development specific to children of alcoholics. Both theoretical frameworks proposed that family …
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Alcohol use and misuse: exploring balance and change
Abstract: How do professional men experience alcohol? It is the intention in this thesis to explore professional men’s experiences of alcohol. Twelve professional men aged between forty and fifty who drink at a minimum of one occasion per week were interviewed. Their narratives were then analysed …
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Effects of Alcohol Use on Cognition During Later Adulthood
Alcohol is one of the most widely used psychoactive substance in the world, yet there are conflicting findings related to its long-term effect on cognition. Some research has identified a U-shaped relationship between alcohol consumption and cognition, while negative relationships have been …
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Effects of Alcohol Use on Cognition During Later Adulthood
Pages vi-xi are misnumbered as pages iv-ix.
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Emotional Antecedents Of Alcohol Use: A Scale Construction Project
… a measure of the Emotional Antecedents of Alcohol Use (EAAU) and investigate its psychometric properties. Focus groups and three pilot studies were conducted to develop and define the construct of alcohol consumption as a means of emotion regulation. Items were written based upon focus …
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Preclinical Investigations Of Genetic Correlates Of Alcohol Use Disorder
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a common neuropsychiatric condition characterized by uncontrolled alcohol use that has serious medical and social consequences. AUD is heritable and intense work has been done to characterize its genetic basis. Preclinical studies have been critical in describing the …
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Caffeinated Alcohol Use and Anxiety Symptoms Among College Students
<p>Recently, the combination of alcohol and caffeine (i.e., caffeinated alcohol) has been growing in popularity among college students. Consumption of caffeinated alcohol has been shown to result in negative consequences (e.g., required medical attention, engaged in driving and sexual risk …
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Ambulatory assessment of physiological arousal, emotion, and alcohol use
… them at higher risk for negative affect-driven alcohol consumption. The goals of this study were to 1) validate an ambulatory device for measuring electrodermal activity (EDA) and to 2) examine the relations between emotion, EDA, and alcohol use in real-time. Multiple self-reports of emotion, …
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Relations Between Alcohol Use And Migraine Among Young Adults
… sizeable proportion of migraineurs also identify alcohol as a trigger for migraine attacks, but comparatively little research has explored the nature of alcohol consumption (frequency, quantity, type, rate, time of day) in relation to other aspects of migraine. Given limited and conflicting data …
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Reliability Generalization of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test.
<p>The Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT) is a brief screening instrument for assessing alcohol use problems among adults. This instrument is widely used and continued evaluation of its psychometric performance is needed. Reliability and validity are the primary psychometric …
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Perceptual change and alcohol use during couples' conflicts.
… sometimes failed to find associations between alcohol and conflict behavior, how alcohol use is associated with relationship conflict, and whether alcohol and relationship functioning variables are associated with a new variable regarding perceptual changes during conflict interaction. In order …
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Genetic analysis of bipolar disorder and alcohol use disorder
… psychiatric disorders is 30.3%, with substance-use disorders and mood disorders being the second and third most prevalent classes of lifetime disorders, respectively. Bipolar disorder (BD) has a lifetime prevalence of 1.4% and alcohol use disorder (AUD) a lifetime prevalence of 30.3%, and they …
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Goal orientation and alcohol use during the transition to college
Alcohol use peaks in early adulthood and rates are significantly higher among college students than their non-college attending peers. Negative alcohol-related outcomes are common among college drinkers. This longitudinal study aimed to reduce negative alcohol-related outcomes, indirectly, by …
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