Eward A M, Wolfe R, Moll P, Harburg E
Am J Public Health. 1986 Jan;76(1):68-70. doi: 10.2105/ajph.76.1.68.
Studies of the health effects associated with alcohol consumption often use a single non-drinker category as a referent. In this community study (N = 1,672) from Tecumseh, Michigan, past drinkers (N = 191) and life-long abstainers (N = 215) differed substantially for certain behavioral and psychosocial factors. In addition, 65 per cent of the male and 36 per cent of the female non-drinkers were past drinkers. Our findings suggest that a single non-drinking category might lead to ambiguous inferences across studies.
关于饮酒对健康影响的研究通常将单一的非饮酒者类别作为参照。在这项来自密歇根州蒂卡姆西的社区研究(N = 1672)中,曾经饮酒者(N = 191)和终身戒酒者(N = 215)在某些行为和心理社会因素方面存在显著差异。此外,65%的男性非饮酒者和36%的女性非饮酒者曾经饮酒。我们的研究结果表明,单一的非饮酒者类别可能会导致不同研究间的推断产生歧义。