Tampah-Naah Anthony Mwinilanaa, Amoah Samuel Twumasi
Department of Environment and Resource Studies, University for Development Studies, Wa Campus, Wa, Ghana.
BMC Public Health. 2015 Apr 1;15:317. doi: 10.1186/s12889-015-1651-3.
The consumption and drinking frequency of alcoholic beverage are identified with various individual factors. The aim of this study was to identify background characteristics of women associated with the consumption and drinking frequency of alcoholic beverage.
Data was extracted from the 2008 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey. The data consisted of women's (aged 15-49 years) background characteristics and their reported history of consumption and drinking frequency of alcoholic beverage. A weighted sample size of 4916 women was used in the present study. Binary logistic regression and multinomial logistic regression were applied to examine the independent association between the covariates and the consumption and drinking frequency of alcoholic beverage respectively.
Out of the 4916 women that were included in the study, 17.5% consumed alcoholic beverage in the past week. Factors that were found to be associated with women who consumed alcoholic beverage in a binary logistic regression model were age (15-19 years up to 45-49 years), region (Central, Greater Accra, Volta, Ashanti, Northern, Upper East, and Upper West), ethnicity (Ga or Dangme, Mole-Dagbani, Grussi, Gruma or Mande), wealth quintile (middle), and employment status [past 12 months] (those employed). In the multinomial logistic regression model, drinking frequency of alcoholic beverage was associated with women in the Central (none), Greater Accra Region (none and 4 or more times), Eastern (none and 2-3 times), Brong Ahafo (none), Upper East (none), those who attained primary education (4 or more times), Ga/Dangme ethnic group (none), those of middle wealth quintile (none), and those employed (4 or more times).
In the country, about 2 in 10 women consume alcoholic beverage and the drinking frequency of alcoholic beverage varied among women in the country. Hence, the maintenance of moderate alcoholic beverage consumption among women, where applicable, should be encouraged.
酒精饮料的消费和饮用频率与多种个体因素相关。本研究的目的是确定与酒精饮料消费和饮用频率相关的女性背景特征。
数据取自2008年加纳人口与健康调查。数据包括女性（年龄在15 - 49岁之间）的背景特征以及她们报告的酒精饮料消费史和饮用频率。本研究使用了4916名女性的加权样本量。分别应用二元逻辑回归和多项逻辑回归来检验协变量与酒精饮料消费和饮用频率之间的独立关联。
在纳入研究的4916名女性中，17.5%在过去一周内饮用过酒精饮料。在二元逻辑回归模型中，发现与饮用酒精饮料的女性相关的因素有年龄（15 - 19岁至45 - 49岁）、地区（中部、大阿克拉、沃尔特、阿散蒂、北部、上东部和上西部）、民族（加或丹格梅、莫莱 - 达格巴尼、格鲁西、格鲁马或曼德）、财富五分位数（中等）以及就业状况[过去12个月]（就业者）。在多项逻辑回归模型中，酒精饮料的饮用频率与中部地区（无）、大阿克拉地区（无和4次及以上）、东部地区（无和2 - 3次）、布朗·阿哈福地区（无）、上东部地区（无）、接受过小学教育的女性（4次及以上）、加/丹格梅族女性（无）、中等财富五分位数的女性（无）以及就业女性（4次及以上）相关。
在该国，约十分之二的女性饮用酒精饮料，且该国女性的酒精饮料饮用频率各不相同。因此，在适用的情况下，应鼓励女性适度饮用酒精饮料。
