Binge drinking in Brazilian adolescents: results of a national household survey

Medeiros, Pollyanna Fausta Pimentel de; Valente, Juliana Y.; Rezende, Leandro F. M.; Sanchez, Zila M.

doi:10.1590/0102-311XEN077322

person Pollyanna Fausta Pimentel de Medeiros

contributed to the study conception, data analysis and interpretation, and writing of the article, besides being responsible for all aspects of the study regarding ensuring its accuracy and the completeness of all parts, and approved the final version to be published

school Programa de Pós-graduação em Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil.

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person Juliana Y. Valente

contributed to the study conception, data analysis and interpretation, and writing of the article, besides being responsible for all aspects of the study regarding ensuring its accuracy and the completeness of all parts, and approved the final version to be published

school Programa de Pós-graduação em Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil.

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person Leandro F. M. Rezende

contributed to the writing of the article and the critical review of its intellectual content, and approved the final version to be published

school Programa de Pós-graduação em Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil.

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person Zila M. Sanchez

contributed to the study conception, data analysis and interpretation, and writing of the article, besides being responsible for all aspects of the study regarding ensuring its accuracy and the completeness of all parts, and approved the final version to be published

school Programa de Pós-graduação em Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil.

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personCorrespondence P. F. P. Medeiros Programa de Pós-graduação em Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal de São Paulo. Rua Botucatu 740, sala 563, São Paulo, SP 04023-062, Brasil.
emailpollypimenta@yahoo.com

groupsContributors

P. F. P. Medeiros contributed to the study conception, data analysis and interpretation, and writing of the article, besides being responsible for all aspects of the study regarding ensuring its accuracy and the completeness of all parts, and approved the final version to be published. J. Y. Valente contributed to the study conception, data analysis and interpretation, and writing of the article, besides being responsible for all aspects of the study regarding ensuring its accuracy and the completeness of all parts, and approved the final version to be published. L. F. M. Rezende contributed to the writing of the article and the critical review of its intellectual content, and approved the final version to be published. Z. M. Sanchez contributed to the study conception, data analysis and interpretation, and writing of the article, besides being responsible for all aspects of the study regarding ensuring its accuracy and the completeness of all parts, and approved the final version to be published.

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ORCID: Pollyanna Fausta Pimentel de Medeiros (0000-0003-1679-5330); Juliana Y. Valente (0000-0003-4408-2952); Leandro F. M. Rezende (0000-0002-7469-1399); Zila M. Sanchez (0000-0002-7427-7956).

Characteristics	Total (n = 2,315)			Binge drinking (n = 178; 8.1%)			Did not practice binge drinking (n = 2,137; 91,9%)
	n	%	95%CI	n	%	95%CI	n	%	95%CI
Sex
Boys	1,137	50.7	50.7-50.7	109	67.1	54.3-77.6	1,028	49.3	48.0-50.4
Girls	1,178	49.3	49.2-49.2	69	32.9	22.3-45.6	1,109	50.7	49.5-51.9
Race/Skin color
White	724	37.2	34.7-40.3	48	28.5	18.9-40.7	676	38.0	34.8-41.3
Black/Mixed-race	1,561	60.6	57.5-63.6	128	70.0	57.8-79.9	1,433	59.7	56.5-62.9
Other	29	2.2	0.9-4.4	2	1.5	0.2-6.8	27	2.3	0.9-4.7
School attendance
Yes	1,966	86.7	84.0-88.9	118	69.1	52.6-81.7	1,848	88.3	85.6-90.4
No	349	13.3	11.0-15.9	60	30.9	18.3-47.3	289	11.7	9.5-14.3
Wealth score (quintile)
Q1 (poorest)	714	21.2	19.1-23.5	50	13.2	19.1-23.5	664	21.9	19.6-24.4
Q2	414	15.7	13.6-18.1	39	17.2	13.6-18.1	375	15.6	13.4-18.1
Q3	473	21.3	18.4-24.2	45	34.9	18.4-24.2	428	19.9	17.3-22.7
Q4	345	16.8	14.6-19.3	23	11.5	14.6-19.3	322	17.3	14.9-20.0
Q5 (richest)	369	25.0	22.3-28.2	21	23.2	22.0-28.2	348	25.3	22.0-28.5
Age (years)
15	707	29.3	26.1-32.3	32	25.9	13.2-44.7	675	29.4	26.5-32.4
16	756	34.1	31.0-37.4	52	19.5	12.3-29.0	704	35.4	32.2-38.8
17	852	36.6	33.4-40.1	94	54.6	40.2-68.3	758	35.2	31.8-38.5

Alcohol consumption pattern	n	%	95%CI
Frequency of consumption
Does not drink at all	1,879	77.6	74.2-80.0
Less than once a month	192	8.6	6.8-10.7
At least once a month	244	13.8	11.3-16.9
Average consumption per week in days (mean±SD)	0.18±0.27
Average amount consumed in a day * (mean±SD)	3.73±0.15
Binge drinking in the past month	178	8.1	6.2-10.3
Average amount when binge drinking (mean±SD)	11.05±0.22
Drink-driving	20	1.32	0.4-3.6
Consumed alcohol and failed to perform activities
Never	2,282	98.6	97.7-99.2
Once a month or less	27	1.1	0.6-2.1
Twice a month or more	6	0.3	0.05-0.40
How many times after drinking did you not remember what happened?
Never	2,246	96.8	95.3-97.9
Once a month or less	55	2.6	1.7-3.9
Twice a month or more	14	0.6	0.2-1.2
Drinking so much that close people asked to stop drinking
No	2,209	95.1	93.0-96.5
Yes, once	29	1.5	0.8-2.7
Yes, more than once	77	3.4	2.0-5.4

Characteristics	Binge drinking (yes)		Unadjusted			Adjusted *
	%	95%CI	OR	95%CI	p-value	OR	95%CI	p-value
Sex
Boys	10.71	7.57-14.94	Reference			Reference
Girls	5.42	3.67-7.94	0.4	0.2-6.8	0.013	0.5	0.2-0.8	0.020
Race/Skin color
White	6.21	3.99-9.54	Reference			Reference
Black/Mixed-race	9.37	6.88-12.66	1.5	0.8-2.7	0.129	1.6	0.8-3.1	0.150
Other	5.26	0.89-25.52	0.8	0.1-5.3	0.853	1.1	0.2-6.7	0.860
School attendance
Yes	6.45	4.90-8.44	Reference			Reference
No	18.88	10.5-31.59	3.3	1.5-7.2	0.002	2.8	1.6-5.0	< 0.010
Wealth score (quintile)
Q1 (poorest)	5.04	3.53-7.14	Reference			Reference
Q2	8.84	5.46-13.99	1.8	0.9-3.4	0.006	2.1	1.4-4.1	0.010
Q3	13.37	7.92-21.68	2.9	1.4-5.7	0.002	3.9	2.0-7.8	< 0.010
Q4	5.49	3.06-9.66	1.0	0.5-2.2	0.800	1.5	0.7-3.3	0.250
Q5 (richest)	7.54	4.20-13.17	0.05	0.7-3.1	0.240	2.9	1.1-7.7	0.020
Age (years)
15	7.22	3.45-14.51	Reference			Reference
16	4.59	3.00-6.97	0.6	0.2-1.5	0.290	0.5	0.2-1.1	0.100
17	12.06	9.04-15.92	1.7	0.7-4.1	0.190	1.5	0.7-3.3	0.220

[TFN1] 95%CI: 95% confidence interval.

[TFN2] Source: Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics ⁴.

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