1. Accessibility of Catering Service Venues and Adolescent Drinking in Beijing, China
- Author
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Lu, Shijun, Du, Songming, Ren, Zhoupeng, Zhao, Jing, Chambers, Christina, Wang, Jinfeng, and Ma, Guansheng
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Pediatric ,Alcoholism ,Alcohol Use and Health ,Clinical Research ,Substance Misuse ,Stroke ,Cancer ,Cardiovascular ,Oral and gastrointestinal ,Good Health and Well Being ,Adolescent ,Beijing ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,Female ,Food Services ,Food Supply ,Humans ,Male ,Risk Factors ,Schools ,Surveys and Questionnaires ,Underage Drinking ,adolescent drinking ,catering service venues ,alcoholic beverage ,accessibility ,school environment ,Toxicology - Abstract
This study assessed the association between accessibility of catering service venues and adolescents' alcohol use over the previous 30 days. The data were collected from cross-sectional surveys conducted in 2014, 2223 students at 27 high schools in Chaoyang and Xicheng districts, Beijing using self-administered questionnaires to collect the adolescents information on socio-demographic characteristics and recent alcohol experiences. The accessibility of, and proximity to, catering service venues were summarized by weights, which were calculated by multiplication of the type-weight and the distance-weight. All sampled schools were categorized into three subgroups (low, middle, and high geographic density) based on the tertile of nearby catering service venues, and a multi-level logistic regression analysis was performed to explore variance between the school levels. Considering the setting characteristics, the catering service venues weighted value was found to account for 8.6% of the school level variance of adolescent alcohol use. The odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) of drinking over the past 30-days among adolescents with medium and high accessibility of catering service venues were 1.17 (0.86, 1.57) and 1.47 (1.06, 2.02), respectively (p < 0.001 for trend test). This study addressed a gap in the adolescent drinking influence by the catering service venues around schools in China. Results suggest that the greater accessibility of catering service venues around schools is associated with a growing risk of recent drinking.
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- 2015