Lange James E, Voas Robert B, Johnson Mark B
Student Health Services, Health Promotion Department, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA.
Addiction. 2002 Sep;97(9):1195-203. doi: 10.1046/j.1360-0443.2002.00182.x.
The research describes the characteristics and motivations of youthful San Diego County residents who patronize the bars and nightclubs in Tijuana, Mexico.
Two random-digit-dial surveys of San Diego County residents-one group aged 18-20 years and one aged 21-30 years-was conducted during a 2-year period. Those who reported having visited the bars in Tijuana in the last year were compared with those who had not.
All respondents were residents of San Diego County, California, USA.
The study comprised 2200 youths between 18 and 30 years of age.
The interview protocol included questions covering demographic characteristics, drinking and drug-use history, experience with Tijuana bars, and ratings of bar features in San Diego and Tijuana.
About half of the 18-20-year-olds and a third of the 21-30-year-olds reported visiting bars in Tijuana at least once in the past 12 months. Race, age, gender, heavy drinking and drug-use history were significantly associated with visits to Tijuana bars. The price of alcohol and the perceived freedom to get drunk in Tijuana bars were considered attractive features leading to cross-border drinking.
The features of the alcohol service in Mexican bars that attract youthful drinkers (low cost and liberal availability of alcohol, lack of formal controls, and presence of heavy drinkers) are similar to those present in other drinking locales that lead to drunkenness. Thus, a better understanding of the characteristics and motivations of the US youths patronizing bars in Tijuana can lead to improved interventions to reduce heavy, risky drinking.
本研究描述了光顾墨西哥蒂华纳酒吧和夜总会的圣地亚哥县年轻居民的特征和动机。
在两年时间内，对圣地亚哥县居民进行了两次随机数字拨号调查，一组年龄在18 - 20岁，另一组年龄在21 - 30岁。将报告在过去一年去过蒂华纳酒吧的人与未去过的人进行比较。
所有受访者均为美国加利福尼亚州圣地亚哥县居民。
该研究包括2200名年龄在18至30岁之间的年轻人。
访谈协议包括涵盖人口统计学特征、饮酒和吸毒史、在蒂华纳酒吧的经历以及对圣地亚哥和蒂华纳酒吧特征评分的问题。
在18 - 20岁的人群中，约有一半，在21 - 30岁的人群中，约有三分之一报告在过去12个月中至少去过一次蒂华纳的酒吧。种族、年龄、性别、大量饮酒和吸毒史与去蒂华纳酒吧显著相关。蒂华纳酒吧的酒精价格以及在那里醉酒的可感知自由度被认为是导致跨境饮酒的有吸引力的特征。
墨西哥酒吧中吸引年轻饮酒者的酒精服务特征（低成本和酒精供应宽松、缺乏正式管控以及有大量饮酒者）与其他导致醉酒的饮酒场所的特征相似。因此，更好地了解光顾蒂华纳酒吧的美国年轻人的特征和动机，有助于改进干预措施，以减少大量、危险饮酒行为。
