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Alcohol’s Harm to Children: Findings from the 2015 U.S. National Alcohol’s Harm to Others Survey
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Objectives To examine the prevalence and severity of alcohol's harm to children in the US and the relationship of the harmer to the child, and to examine caregivers' sociodemographic characteristics, alcohol use, and exposure to harm due to a drinking spouse/partner or other family member as risk factors for alcohol's harm to children. Study design We report data on 764 caregivers (defined as persons with parental responsibility for at least 1 child aged ≤17 years) from the 2015 National Alcohol's Harm to Others Survey, a dual-frame national sample of US adults. Results Overall 7.4% of caregivers reported alcohol's harm to children in the past year. Risk factors for alcohol's harm to children included the caregiver's own experience of alcohol's harm from a spouse/partner or other family member. Caregivers with a heavy drinker in the household were significantly more likely to report harm to children. A caregiver's own heavy drinking was not a significant risk factor for children in his or her care. Conclusions Alcohol places a substantial burden on children in the US. Although a caregiver's own drinking can harm children, other drinkers also increase the risk of alcohol's harm to children. Screening caregivers to determine whether there is a heavy drinker in the household may help reduce alcohol's harm in the family without stigmatizing caregivers, who themselves may not be heavy drinkers.
- Subjects :
- Child abuse
Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Heavy drinker
Adolescent
Alcohol Drinking
030508 substance abuse
Alcohol
Alcohol use disorder
Article
03 medical and health sciences
chemistry.chemical_compound
Young Adult
0302 clinical medicine
Child of Impaired Parents
Risk Factors
Surveys and Questionnaires
Medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Child Abuse
Young adult
Psychiatry
Child
Family Health
business.industry
Infant
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Health Surveys
United States
Family member
Harm
chemistry
Socioeconomic Factors
Spouse
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
Child, Preschool
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Female
0305 other medical science
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....148fddb2efca61bbc4580d1c685a4adb