The Finnish Foundation for Alcohol Studies, P.O. Box 30, FI-00271 Helsinki, Finland.
Alcohol Alcohol. 2013 Sep-Oct;48(5):620-6. doi: 10.1093/alcalc/agt048. Epub 2013 Jun 4.
To test if changes in national alcohol policy have had an impact on alcohol use among 12- to 18-year-old adolescents in Finland over a 30-year period.
Frequencies of drinking any amounts of alcohol and drinking alcohol until really drunk from bi-annual repeated cross-sectional surveys from 1981 to 2011 were examined against a national alcohol policy review using nationally representative samples of 12-, 14-, 16- and 18-year-old adolescents (n = 99,724) in Finland.
Twelve-year-olds' alcohol drinking remained rare throughout the period. Drinking among 18-year-olds generally increased throughout the period. Significant increases until the late 1990s and decreases thereafter were observed in 14- and 16-year-olds' drinking patterns. A sharp increase was predicted between 2003 and 2005 as a result of EU-related processes, but instead decrease was observed among 14-16-year-olds. The tests of hypothesized decrease from 2005 to 2011 due to tightening alcohol policy including several tax raises produced mixed results.
Alcohol policy changes between 1981 and 2011 seem not to have had noticeable influence on alcohol drinking or drunkenness among the under-aged in Finland. Conspicuous increases seen in population total consumption in association with EU-related developments have not materialized among adolescents.
检验在过去 30 年中，芬兰国家饮酒政策的变化是否对 12 至 18 岁青少年的饮酒行为产生了影响。
利用 1981 年至 2011 年每两年进行一次的全国代表性 12 岁、14 岁、16 岁和 18 岁青少年重复横断面调查的数据，针对全国饮酒政策审查，检查任何饮酒量和饮酒至醉酒的频率。
12 岁青少年的饮酒行为在整个研究期间仍然很少见。18 岁青少年的饮酒行为总体上在整个研究期间呈上升趋势。14 岁和 16 岁青少年的饮酒模式观察到显著增加，直到 20 世纪 90 年代末，随后下降。由于与欧盟相关的进程，预计 2003 年至 2005 年间会出现急剧增加，但实际上在 14 至 16 岁青少年中观察到下降。由于包括多次提高税收在内的饮酒政策收紧，假设 2005 年至 2011 年的饮酒量会减少，但测试结果喜忧参半。
1981 年至 2011 年期间的饮酒政策变化似乎对芬兰未成年饮酒或醉酒行为没有明显影响。与欧盟相关发展相关的人口总消费的显著增加并未在青少年中实现。
