Kelpin Sydney S, Moore Thomas B, Hull Lynn C, Dillon Pamela M, Perry Bridget L, Thacker Leroy R, Hancock Linda, Svikis Dace S
Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States.
VA Boston Healthcare System, Brockton Campus, Brockton, MA, United States.
J Subst Use. 2018;23(6):574-578. doi: 10.1080/14659891.2018.1459901. Epub 2018 Apr 9.
For more than a decade, a large proportion of research on caffeine use in college students has focused on energy drinks (ED), demonstrating an association between ED consumption and heavy/problem alcohol use. The present study examined the relationship between daily coffee consumption and varied measures of alcohol use and problems in a sample of college women.
Participants were undergraduate females (N=360) attending an urban university in 2001-02 and prior to the rise in ED popularity on college campuses. Analyses compared women who reported drinking coffee daily (DC; 16.9%), to women who did not (NDC; 83.1%) on standardized measures of alcohol use and problems.
For both past month and year of drinking, DC women generally reported consuming more alcohol and were 2.1-2.6 times more likely to screen at risk for alcohol problems than their NDC counterparts. DC women were also more likely than NDC women to report problems related to drinking (e.g., experiencing blackouts, inability to stop drinking after they had started).
Findings support potential benefits of health education and screening that goes beyond EDs, focusing on varied forms of caffeine consumption.
十多年来，关于大学生咖啡因摄入的大部分研究都集中在能量饮料上，表明饮用能量饮料与大量饮酒/问题饮酒之间存在关联。本研究调查了大学女生样本中每日咖啡摄入量与不同饮酒量及饮酒问题之间的关系。
参与者为2001 - 2002年就读于一所城市大学的本科女生（N = 360），当时能量饮料在大学校园还未流行起来。分析比较了报告每日喝咖啡的女性（DC；16.9%）和不喝咖啡的女性（NDC；83.1%）在饮酒量及饮酒问题的标准化测量方面的情况。
在过去一个月和一年的饮酒情况方面，DC组女性普遍报告饮酒量更多，且其酒精问题筛查呈风险状态的可能性是NDC组女性的2.1至2.6倍。DC组女性比NDC组女性更有可能报告与饮酒相关的问题（例如，经历昏厥、开始饮酒后无法停止）。
研究结果支持健康教育和筛查的潜在益处，这种教育和筛查应超越能量饮料，关注多种形式的咖啡因摄入。
