A study from Africa has found a link between difficult childhood experiences and alcohol consumption in adolescence.
- Caroline Kabiru and her colleagues from the African Population and Health Research Center studied 9,189 children ages 12 to 19 years old.
- The researchers asked the children whether they had been drunk in the past year.
- The 9% of participants who said they had been intoxicated were more likely to live with a problem drinker, to have been physically abused or coerced into having sex, and to dwell in households where food was scarce.
- These results are similar to other studies in other parts of the world.
The study appeared in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health.
Labels: alcohol abuse, family
Posted By: Aspen Education Group