Dipartimento di Scienze della Sanità Pubblica e Pediatriche, Università degli Studi di Torino, Turin, Italy.
Dipartimento di Psicologia dello Sviluppo e della Socializzazione, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padua, Italy.
Ann Ist Super Sanita. 2020 Oct-Dec;56(4):531-537. doi: 10.4415/ANN_20_04_18.
Alcohol remains the most commonly substance used by adolescents.The aim of the study was to draw a comprehensive picture of the behavioural patterns that characterize alcohol use and abuse among 15-year-olds.
The study sample included 18,918 15-year-olds participating in the 2018 Italian Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) survey. A Bayesian approach was adopted for selecting the manifest variables associated with alcohol consumption; a latent class regression model was employed to identify health-related risk patterns associated with alcohol use.
21% of our sample represented the cluster of heavy drinkers who shared other risk behaviours: heavy smoking habits (29%), cannabis (68%), gambling (52%) and drunkenness (76%) experience, binge drinking (96%) and sexual intercourse (51%).
Our results confirm multiple risk-taking behaviours among adolescents tending to cluster in behavioural patterns. This has implications for public health policies and must be considered when planning interventions and prevention strategies.
酒精仍然是青少年最常使用的物质。本研究的目的是全面描绘 15 岁青少年饮酒和滥用酒精的行为模式。
研究样本包括参加 2018 年意大利青少年健康行为调查（HBSC）的 18918 名 15 岁青少年。采用贝叶斯方法选择与饮酒有关的显变量；采用潜在类别回归模型确定与饮酒有关的健康风险模式。
我们的样本中有 21%属于重度饮酒者群体，他们还有其他风险行为：重度吸烟习惯（29%）、大麻（68%）、赌博（52%）和醉酒（76%）经历、狂饮（96%）和性行为（51%）。
我们的结果证实了青少年中存在多种冒险行为倾向于聚类成行为模式。这对公共卫生政策有影响，在规划干预和预防策略时必须考虑到这一点。
