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. 2015 Mar 18;10(3):e0119554.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119554. eCollection 2015.

Correlates of pro-drinking practices in drinking parents of adolescents in Hong Kong

Wing Man Au  1 , Sai Yin Ho  1 , Man Ping Wang  2 , Wing Sze Lo  1 , Sze Pui Pamela Tin  1 , Rong Huang  1 , Tai Hing Lam  1
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Correlates of pro-drinking practices in drinking parents of adolescents in Hong Kong

Wing Man Au et al. PLoS One. .

Abstract

Introduction and aims: Parental alcohol-related practices are important risk factors of adolescent drinking, but little is known about the factors associated with these parental pro-drinking practices (PPDPs). We investigated the correlates of 9 PPDPs in drinking parents of adolescents in Hong Kong.

Methods: A total of 2200 students (age 14.8±2.0; boys 63.2%) participated in a school-based cross-sectional survey in 2012. Analysis was restricted to 1087 (61.8%) students with at least 1 drinking parent as PPDPs were much more common in these families. Logistic regression was used to identify correlates of each PPDP.

Results: Among 1087 students, the prevalence of PPDPs ranged from 8.2% for training drinking capacity to 65.7% for seeing parents drink. Only 14.8% of students had not experienced any of these practices. More frequent maternal drinking predicted parental training of drinking capacity. Older age predicted helping parents buy alcohol and parental encouragement of drinking. Adolescent girls were more likely to have received parental training of drinking capacity than boys. Higher perceived family affluence was associated with hearing parents saying benefits of drinking, and helping parents open bottle and pour alcohol.

Conclusions: PPDPs were associated with parental drinking frequency and various socio-demographic factors. These results have implications on alcohol control programmes involving parents to tailor messages for reducing PPDPs based on the characteristics of adolescents and parents.

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Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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