Women’s alcohol consumption in a Primary Health Care service

To identify alcohol consumption patterns in people cared by a Primary Health Care service and verify the association between the patterns and the variables of the sample.

Method:

Our observational study used both the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test instrument and a questionnaire with socio-demographic, clinical, and behavioral questions for data collection. We carried out the descriptive and univariate analysis with Kendall and Kruskal-Wallis correlation tests. We introduced variables with p ≤ 0.2 values in the multiple logistic regression – Mann-Whitney test.

Results:

The sample of the study was constituted by 561 women. The analysis results indicated relevant influence for higher patterns of consumption: not having a partner, not having a religion, smoking and drug habits, and having arterial hypertension. Besides that, within each additional year in women’s age, the alcohol consumption decreases.

Conclusion:

We endorsed data that female alcohol consumption is presenting a tendency to increase especially among younger women, this information is essential for the promotion of Primary Health Care.

DESCRIPTORS
Women; Alcoholism; Substance Abuse Detection; Primary Care Nursing; Primary Health Care

Variables		Interviewees (n)	Percentage (%)	AUDIT average
Sexual orientation	Assexual	6	1.1	2
	Bissexual	11	2	6.09
	Heterossexual	529	94.8	2.93
	Homossexual	12	2.2	12
Color or race/ethnicity	White	202	36.3	3.03
	Brown	244	43.9	3.01
	Black	98	17.6	4.06
	Yellow	9	1.6	2.89
	Indigenous	3	0.5	2
Marital status	Single	210	37.43	3.94
	Married	164	29.23	2.08
	Divorced	60	10.7	3.37
	Widow	48	8.56	1.94
	With a partner	79	14.08	3.96
Religion	Catholic	247	44.03	3.15
	Evangelical	132	23.53	1.5
	None	84	14.97	5.31
	Other	96	17.11	17.65
Family income by social class^* * Family income by social class: A: above 20 minimum salaries; B: from 10 to 20 minimum salaries; C: from 4 to 10 minimum salaries; D: from 2 to 4 minimum salaries; and E: till 2 minimum salaries.	A	1	0.2	17
	B	5	0.98	1
	C	51	10.02	2.61
	D	170	33.4	2.74
	E	282	55.4	3.3

Variables		Interviewees (n)	Percentage	AUDIT average
Arterial hypertension	Yes	140	24.96	2.94
Arterial hypertension	No	421	75.04	3.24
Diabetes	Yes	60	10.7	2.22
Diabetes	No	501	89.3	3.28
Cholesterol	Yes	53	9.48	1.92
Cholesterol	No	506	90.52	3.28
Mental disorder	Yes	120	21.39	4.65
Mental disorder	No	441	78.61	2.76

Variables		Interviewees (n)	Percentage	AUDIT average
Drugs consumption	Yes	20	3.57	15.5
Drugs consumption	No	540	96.43	2.72
Smoking habit	Yes	98	17.47	7.15
Smoking habit	No	463	82.53	2.32

Variables	*RR^ * RR: Relative Risk.**	IC 95%^ IC: Confidence Interval.	p
Age	0.97	(0.96–0.99)	< 0.00
Marital status
With a partner	1
Without a partner	1.31	(1–1.72)	0.05
Religion
Catholic	0.9	(0.63–1.29)	0.57
Evangelical	0.5	(0.32–0.78)	< 0.00
Spiritist	0.81	(0.45–1.48)	0.5
Cristian	0.54	(0.28–1.04)	0.06
Other	0.71	(0.38–1.35)	0.29
None	1
Smoking habit
Yes	2.01	(1.50–2.70)	< 0.00
No	1
Drugs usage
Yes	1.76	(1.12–2.77)	0.01
No	1
Hypertension
Yes	1.54	(1.09–2.19)	0.01
No	1
No	1

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Extracted from the thesis “Rastreio e intervenção breve para mulheres que fazem uso de risco e nocivo de álcool atendidas em serviço de Atenção Primária à Saúde”, Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Enfermagem, 2019.

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Women’s alcohol consumption in a Primary Health Care service* * Extracted from the thesis “Rastreio e intervenção breve para mulheres que fazem uso de risco e nocivo de álcool atendidas em serviço de Atenção Primária à Saúde”, Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Enfermagem, 2019.

Consumo de alcohol de mujeres en un servicio de Atención Primaria de Salud

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Women’s alcohol consumption in a Primary Health Care service^* * Extracted from the thesis “Rastreio e intervenção breve para mulheres que fazem uso de risco e nocivo de álcool atendidas em serviço de Atenção Primária à Saúde”, Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Enfermagem, 2019.