Predictors of One-Year Persistence of Harm From a Known Person's Drinking: Findings From a Longitudinal Population-Based Study in Sweden.

Objective: Few studies have investigated the persistence over time of experiences of harm from a known person's drinking. The aim of this study was to describe 1-year persistence and investigate its predictors at baseline. Potential predictors included the harmed person's sociodemographic factors, their own drinking habits, their relationship to the person causing harm, and the type of negative experience.

Prevalence of cannabis use among young adults in Sweden comparing randomized response technique with a traditional survey.

Background And Aims: The prevalence of cannabis use based on self-reports is likely to be underestimated in population surveys, especially in contexts where its use is a criminal offence. Indirect survey methods ask sensitive questions ensuring that answers cannot be identified with an individual respondent, therefore potentially resulting in more reliable estimates. We aimed to measure whether the indirect survey method 'randomized response technique' (RRT) increased response rate and/or increased disclosure of cannabis use among young adults compared with a traditional survey.

Country-Level Heavy Episodic Drinking and Individual-Level Experiences of Harm from Others' Drinking-Related Aggression in 19 European Countries.

Introduction: There is limited knowledge about how individual experiences of harm from others' drinking are influenced by heavy episodic drinking (HED) at the country level. The present study aimed to assess (1) the association between the country-level prevalence of HED and the risk of experiencing harm from others' drinking-related aggression and (2) if HED at the country level modifies the association between consumption of alcohol per capita (APC) and such harm.

Methods: Outcome data from 32,576 participants from 19 European countries stem from the RARHA SEAS study.

Cross-sectional surveys of financial harm associated with others' drinking in 15 countries: Unequal effects on women?

Introduction And Aims: That physical, emotional and social problems occur not only to drinkers, but also to others they connect with, is increasingly acknowledged. Financial harms from others' drinking have been seldom studied at the population level, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Whether financial harm and costs from others' drinking inequitably affect women is little known.

Are differences in population prevalence of alcohol's harm to others related to survey administration mode?

Introduction And Aims: This study assessed the comparability of estimates of alcohol's harm to others across different administration modes in Swedish general population surveys. Harm was categorised as harm from strangers' drinking and harm from heavy drinkers known to the respondent.

Design And Methods: Three surveys were conducted in 2011/2012 (n = 6841), including identical questions.

Harm Experienced from the Heavy Drinking of Family and Friends in the General Population: A Comparative Study of Six Northern European Countries.

Background: Epidemiological research on alcohol-related harm has long given priority to studies on harm to the drinker. A limitation with this perspective is that it neglects the harm drinking causes to people around the drinker, and thus, it fails to give a full picture of alcohol-related harm in society.

Aim: The aim was to compare the prevalence and correlates of experiencing harm from the heavy drinking by family and friends across the Nordic countries and Scotland and to discuss whether potential differences match levels of drinking, prevalence of binge drinking, and alcohol-related mortality.

Experienced Harm from Other People's Drinking: A Comparison of Northern European Countries.

Objective: This study addresses how experienced harm from other people's drinking varies between six Northern European countries by comparing 1) the prevalence of experienced harm and 2) the correlates of harm.

Method: The data comprise 18-69-year olds who participated in general population surveys in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and Scotland during the period 2008-2013. Comparative data were available on five types of harm: physical abuse, damage of clothes/belongings, verbal abuse, being afraid, and being kept awake at night.

Measuring tobacco dependence in the general population: Evaluation of the Cigarette Dependence Scale (CDS-12) and its adaptation to smokeless tobacco use (STDS-12) in two Swedish surveys.

Aims: The 12-item Cigarette Dependence Scale (CDS-12) is an instrument suitable to assess tobacco dependence in non-clinical populations. The aim of this study was twofold: a) to evaluate the scale's performance in a smoking population including non-daily smokers; b) to explore the scale's adaptation to the assessment of dependence on smokeless tobacco.

Methods: In a cross-sectional study we investigated performance and construct validity of the CDS-12 and of its adaptation to smokeless tobacco (STDS-12) in two Swedish population samples.

Prevalence of children whose parents have a substance use disorder: Findings from a Swedish general population survey.

Aims: The present study examined the prevalence of Swedish children living with at least one parent whom has a substance use disorder (SUD), i.e. either an alcohol use disorder (AUD) or a drug use disorder (DUD).

Reducing youth violence related to student parties: Findings from a community intervention project in Stockholm.

Background: During the spring of 2007, the police reported a marked increase in violence and binge drinking related to high school student graduation parties on weekday nights at restaurants in Stockholm city. This spurred a multi-component community intervention project to reduce these problems.

Aims: This study aims to evaluate the impact of the intervention on youth-related violence on weekday nights in 2008-2010.

Hazardous drinking among restaurant workers.

Background/aims: We address three research questions pertaining to Swedish restaurant workers: (i) What is the prevalence of hazardous drinking? (ii) How is the consumption of alcohol distributed? (iii) Does the prevention paradox apply?

Methods: Data were collected by administering the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) among restaurant workers who attended a 2-day Responsible Beverage Service training in Stockholm during the period from October 2008 to December 2009. The control group comprised a sample representative of the general Swedish population. We restricted the analyses to the age span 18-59 years, which yielded a sample size of 579 for restaurant workers and 434 for the general population.