Consumption of and exposure to alcoholic beverages among Brazilian adolescents: Diverse evidence from the 2015 and 2019 National School Health Surveys

• Autor(a) principal: Malta, Deborah Carvalho
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Prates, Elton Junio Sady, Ferreira, Alan Cristian Marinho, Freitas, Paula Carvalho de, Oliveira, Patrícia Pereira Vasconcelos de, Gomes, Crizian Saar, Machado, Ísis Eloah, Neto, Eduardo Luiz Gonçalves Rios
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Reme (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/reme/article/view/38495
• topic: Consumo de Álcool por Menores; Adolescente; Inquéritos Epidemiológicos; Estudos Transversais; Brasil; Underage Drinking; Adolescent; Health Surveys; Cross-Sectional Studies; Brazil; Consumo de Alcohol en Menores; Adolescente; Encuestas Epidemiológicas; Estudios Transversales; Brasil

Objective: to analyze the indicators regarding consumption of and exposure to alcoholic beverages among Brazilian schoolchildren in 2018 and compare them to those from 2015. Method: a cross-sectional study conducted with data from the 2015 and 2019 National School Health Survey (Pesquisa Nacional de Saúde do Escolar, PeNSE). In 2019, the indicators referring to consumption of and exposure to alcoholic beverages were analyzed, stratified by gender, age group, administrative system, Federation Unit, and geographical region. The prevalence values and their respective 95 confidence intervals (95% CIs) were estimated. Results: there was an increase in trying alcoholic beverages before the age of 13 (from 30.6% in 2015 to 34.6% in 2019); being drunk in their lifetime (from 27.2% in 2015 to 47.0% in 2019) and having problems with friends due to alcohol consumption (from 9.3% in 2015 to 15.7% in 2019). All the indicators were more prevalent among the girls, except for binge drinking and drunkenness episodes, which presented no differences between the genders and were also higher among older students Episodes of drunkenness and having friends who drink alcohol were more prevalent among students from public schools, while consumption of alcoholic beverages by parents and having had problems with their families or friends due to alcohol consumption were higher in students from private schools. Conclusion: high prevalence of experimentation, consumption and exposure to alcoholic beverages was evidenced, showing that a large number of Brazilian adolescents are exposed to an avoidable burden of morbidity and mortality resulting from consumption of and exposure to alcohol.