Journal article
Adolescents’ alcohol use and strength of policy relating to youth access, trading hours and driving under the influence: findings from Australia
V White, D Azar, A Faulkner, K Coomber, S Durkin, M Livingston, T Chikritzhs, R Room, M Wakefield
Addiction | WILEY | Published : 2018
DOI: 10.1111/add.14164
Abstract
Aims: To determine (i) whether the strength of Australian alcohol control policy in three domains (youth access, trading hours and drink driving) changed during the 2000s; and (ii) estimate associations between these policies and adolescent drinking after adjusting for television alcohol advertising exposures, alcohol outlet density, alcohol price changes, exposure to negative articles about alcohol in daily newspapers and adult drinking prevalence. Design: Repeated cross-sectional surveys conducted triennially from 2002 to 2011. Multi-level modelling examined the association between alcohol control policies and drinking prevalence after adjusting for covariates. Setting: Four Australian cap..
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Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
This study was supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Partnership Project Grant no. 1037104 with the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation and the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education. M.L. is supported by a NHMRC Early Career Fellowship and by FARE. R.R. is supported by FARE. T.C. is supported by a NHMRC Career Development Fellowship. M.W. is supported by a NHMRC Principal Research Fellowship. Funding for data collection for the student surveys used in this paper was made available from Cancer Councils and state health departments as well as the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing. TRPs data used in this study are from OzTAM Pty Ltd, provided through Nielsen Australia.