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Trend of alcohol use among adolescents and the relation with demographic, environmental and psychological factors

Annually, the harmful use of alcohol contributes to approximately 3.3 million deaths globally, with 4.6% of alcohol-related mortality and 4.0% of the burden of disease and injury in Southeast Asia. Adolescence is an essential stage of a child’s development transitioning into adulthood. During this t...

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Main Authors: Selly Jaimon, Pravina Deligannu, Fredie Robinson
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Language:English
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Published: Universiti Putra Malaysia 2023
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HQ793-799.2 Youth. Adolescents. Teenagers
RJ125-145 Physiology of children and adolescents
TP500-660 Fermentation industries. Beverages. Alcohol
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spelling my.ums.eprints.420042024-11-26T05:36:02Z https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/42004/ Trend of alcohol use among adolescents and the relation with demographic, environmental and psychological factors Selly Jaimon Pravina Deligannu Fredie Robinson HQ793-799.2 Youth. Adolescents. Teenagers RJ125-145 Physiology of children and adolescents TP500-660 Fermentation industries. Beverages. Alcohol Annually, the harmful use of alcohol contributes to approximately 3.3 million deaths globally, with 4.6% of alcohol-related mortality and 4.0% of the burden of disease and injury in Southeast Asia. Adolescence is an essential stage of a child’s development transitioning into adulthood. During this time, adolescents are vulnerable to various social issues that can impact their well-being and development, experimenting with alcohol among others. This review explores the alcohol consumption trend among adolescents and the factors associated, particularly in Malaysia. There are not many studies that explored alcohol use and the associated factors. This partially is attributed to policies restricting alcohol use for adolescents and that it is a sensitive issue for certain communities. Though, adolescents who are current drinkers made up 11.1% of the drinking population with significantly higher consumption in males (15.8%) than females (6.2%). The three prime factors influencing alcohol use among adolescents are socio-demographic, environmental and psychological. Hence, policies on alcohol reduction should be developed for adolescents specifically in school and programmes addressing family functioning taking account of local settings appropriateness. Universiti Putra Malaysia 2023-12 Article NonPeerReviewed text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/42004/1/ABSTRACT.pdf text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/42004/2/FULL%20TEXT.pdf Selly Jaimon and Pravina Deligannu and Fredie Robinson (2023) Trend of alcohol use among adolescents and the relation with demographic, environmental and psychological factors. Malaysian Journal of Medicine and Health Sciences, 19 (20). pp. 224-234.
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topic HQ793-799.2 Youth. Adolescents. Teenagers
RJ125-145 Physiology of children and adolescents
TP500-660 Fermentation industries. Beverages. Alcohol
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RJ125-145 Physiology of children and adolescents
TP500-660 Fermentation industries. Beverages. Alcohol
Selly Jaimon
Pravina Deligannu
Fredie Robinson
Trend of alcohol use among adolescents and the relation with demographic, environmental and psychological factors
description Annually, the harmful use of alcohol contributes to approximately 3.3 million deaths globally, with 4.6% of alcohol-related mortality and 4.0% of the burden of disease and injury in Southeast Asia. Adolescence is an essential stage of a child’s development transitioning into adulthood. During this time, adolescents are vulnerable to various social issues that can impact their well-being and development, experimenting with alcohol among others. This review explores the alcohol consumption trend among adolescents and the factors associated, particularly in Malaysia. There are not many studies that explored alcohol use and the associated factors. This partially is attributed to policies restricting alcohol use for adolescents and that it is a sensitive issue for certain communities. Though, adolescents who are current drinkers made up 11.1% of the drinking population with significantly higher consumption in males (15.8%) than females (6.2%). The three prime factors influencing alcohol use among adolescents are socio-demographic, environmental and psychological. Hence, policies on alcohol reduction should be developed for adolescents specifically in school and programmes addressing family functioning taking account of local settings appropriateness.
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Pravina Deligannu
Fredie Robinson
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Fredie Robinson
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title Trend of alcohol use among adolescents and the relation with demographic, environmental and psychological factors
title_short Trend of alcohol use among adolescents and the relation with demographic, environmental and psychological factors
title_full Trend of alcohol use among adolescents and the relation with demographic, environmental and psychological factors
title_fullStr Trend of alcohol use among adolescents and the relation with demographic, environmental and psychological factors
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