[PDF] Top 20 Alcohol use patterns among Brazilian adults

... describe patterns of alcohol consumption in the adult Brazilian ...country. Among drinkers, 29% reported drinking 5 or more drinks per occasion (men, ...drinking, alcohol problems, and ... See full document

... The interviews were held at the residences of the inter- viewees and administered face to face. Interviewers car- ried out interviews seven days a week during the entire day and evening. The residences were selected ... See full document

... - Brazilian Association of Research Companies, Classification of 2013); variables related to the health of the elderly (Block 2: self-reported morbidities; frailty, measured according to the Edmonton Scale; ... See full document

... the use of tobacco, alcoholic beverages and illicit drugs and family protective ...of Brazilian state ...tobacco, alcohol, and ...tobacco, alcohol, and drug use, and to promote health ... See full document

... Characteristics of the population are described in Table 1. The majority of them were older than 24 (51.8%); with racial classification “pardo”, (roughly translating as “mixed race”; 59.8%); 41% had not completed ... See full document

... dietary and exercise behaviors among diabetics ( 26 ). It is important to highlight that online campaigns (including the ones using social media) seem to be very limited, regarding the low audience reported. The ... See full document

... ent Brazilian national sample, we also identified that some unhealthy behaviors increased the probability of the occurrence of ...ethnicity, Brazilian adults in the cluster with excessive salt ... See full document

... of alcohol use ( around 30% and 60% higher for girls and boys, ...alcohol use. Studying in public schools was a protective fac- tor for recent use of alcohol for both sexes, and ... See full document

... usage patterns in the last year, last month, binge drinking in the last month, and alcohol-re- lated disorders (abuse or dependence according to ...of alcohol use in the period of ...drinking ... See full document

... Alcohol use and abuse are common among people living in sub-Saharan Africa and are charac- terized by patterns of misuse across many contexts and populations, including social strata, rural ... See full document

... A censitaire sector (with 200 to 300 homes) is the smallest unit for which the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statis- tics supplies socioeconomic information (2). This information was used to define by mul- ... See full document

... Some limitations of this study should be considered in the interpretation of their results. The data of the VIGITEL were obtained exclusively by interviews of people with access to fixed telephone line. The use of ... See full document

... the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE); the Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST); and a questionnaire on the knowledge of the consequences of the use ... See full document

... and alcohol seems to be more important than with other psychoactive substances, such as benzodiazepi- ...and alcohol in old pe- ople in emergency rooms after falls; they found that among people aged ... See full document

... It was a multistage cluster sample design with proportional size probability. he sam- ple was representative of socioeconomic and educational levels, and it was drawn from São Paulo metropolitan area. he subjects of this ... See full document

... cence, with the possibility of irreversible damage in the future. Results of the PeNSE study showed significant and worry- ing data on drug use among Brazilian school children, such as ... See full document

... higher among women. 7 The high prevalence of ATS use among women is a cause for concern, because it is known that heavy consumption patterns and symptoms of dependence are more rapidly ... See full document

... frequent among cigarette smokers both in men (68.4%) and in women (56.8%). Among all respondents in bruxer group, ...drinking alcohol because it “allows dealing with stress in an adequate ... See full document

... “lifetime use” (at least once in life), “past-year use” (at least once within the past year), “past-month use” (at least once within the 30 days before the study), frequent use (between 6 and ... See full document

... nonprescribed use of tranquilizers by Brazilian adolescents provides key information from a public health ...acute use of anxiolytics in combination with other substances ...nonprescribed use ... See full document