Unit of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Yokohama City University, Yokohama 236-0004, Japan.
Graduate School of Technology, Industrial and Social Sciences, Tokushima University, Tokushima 770-8502, Japan.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Dec 17;18(24):13318. doi: 10.3390/ijerph182413318.
We conducted a large-scale survey in the Japanese population, about one year after the initial declaration of the state of emergency, to investigate alcohol use under the prolonged coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and its related psychosocial and demographic characteristics. The survey was conducted online between 15 and 20 June 2021. A total of 11,427 participants were included in the analysis (48.5% female, 48.82 ± 13.30 years, range = 20-90 years). Compared with females, males were more prevalent in the hazardous user and the potential alcoholism group and were less prevalent in the no alcohol-related problem group. However, the prevalence of potential alcoholism among the participants in our study was higher than that previously reported. This trend was particularly pronounced in women. The presence of potential alcoholism was related to a deteriorated psychological status, particularly depression and anxiety, and various difficulties in their daily lives due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the future, intervention methods and systems should be developed to provide optimal assistance to people with psychological problems who are vulnerable to alcohol-related problems during the COVID-19 pandemic, while conducting further long-term follow-up studies.
我们在日本人群中进行了一项大规模调查，这是在首次宣布紧急状态大约一年后进行的，旨在调查在持续的 2019 年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）大流行下的饮酒情况及其相关的社会心理和人口统计学特征。该调查于 2021 年 6 月 15 日至 20 日在线进行。共有 11427 名参与者被纳入分析（48.5%为女性，48.82±13.30 岁，范围=20-90 岁）。与女性相比，男性在危险使用者和潜在酒精中毒者中更为常见，而在无酒精相关问题者中则更为少见。然而，与之前的报告相比，我们研究中的参与者中潜在酒精中毒的患病率更高。这种趋势在女性中尤为明显。潜在酒精中毒的存在与心理健康状况恶化有关，特别是抑郁和焦虑，以及由于 COVID-19 大流行而导致日常生活中的各种困难。未来，应制定干预方法和系统，为 COVID-19 大流行期间易出现与酒精相关问题的有心理问题的人提供最佳帮助，并开展进一步的长期随访研究。
