Department of Global Health, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health Bloomington, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Dec 4;19(23):16244. doi: 10.3390/ijerph192316244.
Alcohol intake and Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) among recent and very recent Hispanic immigrants are not well characterized, in particular in the context of perceived stress among such groups. The objective of the present study was to shed light on alcohol intake and AUD overall, as well as potential modifications derived from varying levels of stress and socioeconomic status (SES). The study population was immigrants with six or fewer months of having arrived in the American Midwest, and members of their peer networks who had been in the U.S. for 2+ years. We found that AUD and alcohol intake spanned from very high to a considerable proportion who abstained; perceived stress did not have an obvious impact on AUD or alcohol intake. Moreover, neither New vs. Established immigrant statuses, or SES levels, were associated with AUD or alcohol intake. Future research should examine in a more finely-grained approach the components of SES to verify if the complex circumstances of recent immigrants are in fact amenable to SES classification using standard quantification approaches-even using the functional descriptions of the SES surrogates we used.
酒精摄入和近期及新近西班牙裔移民中的酒精使用障碍（AUD）尚未得到充分描述，特别是在这些群体的感知压力背景下。本研究的目的是阐明总体饮酒量和 AUD，以及源自不同压力水平和社会经济地位（SES）的潜在变化。研究人群为在美国中西部地区居住不到六个月的移民，以及在美国居住超过两年的其同龄人群体成员。我们发现，AUD 和饮酒量从非常高到相当一部分人戒酒不等；感知压力对 AUD 或饮酒量没有明显影响。此外，新移民与老移民身份或 SES 水平均与 AUD 或饮酒量无关。未来的研究应采用更精细的方法来研究 SES 的组成部分，以验证最近移民的复杂情况是否实际上可以通过使用标准量化方法来进行 SES 分类——即使使用我们使用的 SES 替代指标的功能描述。
