Publications by authors named "Ilona Tamutiene"
Alcohol use is a major risk factor for burden of disease. This narrative review aims to document the effects of major alcohol control policies, in particular taxation increases and availability restrictions in the three Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania) between 2000 and 2020. These measures have been successful in curbing alcohol sales, in general without increasing consumption of alcoholic beverages from unrecorded sources; although for more recent changes this may have been partly due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA set of evidence-based alcohol control policy measures was adopted in the period 2016-2020 in Lithuania. The present study fills a knowledge gap on how changes in alcohol control policy are associated with attitudes toward different alcohol policy measures. This study aims to explore whether support for key alcohol control policy measures in Lithuania declined following implementation of alcohol control measures.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlcohol intoxication incidence differences at companies in Lithuania.
Drug Alcohol Rev
November 2021
Introduction: Employee alcohol consumption is a major challenge to both the health of the employee and productivity of the company. Our study investigates the overall alcohol intoxication rates of employees at companies in Lithuania, alcohol intoxication incidence rates during the work week and associations between company variables and employee alcohol intoxication at work.
Methods: Data for our study were collected at 153 different companies in Lithuania during the year 2018.
Objectives: (1) to learn to whom children disclose experiences of harm caused by their parents' or carers' substance abuse, (2) to show whether professionals enable children to disclose this harm, and (3) to highlight what kind of assistance they provide after disclosure of harm.
Methods: The study is based on in-depth semi-structured interviews with children living with alcohol-abusing caregivers in Lithuania. Twenty-three children, aged from 8 to 18 years, from social risk families participated in this study.
Alcohol-related child maltreatment: Reports to the Child Rights Protection Service in Kaunas municipality.
Nordisk Alkohol Nark
February 2018
Aim: To increase understanding of alcohol-related child maltreatment on the basis of child protection cases in Lithuania. The study is based on a document content analysis of 203 case records of families at social risk. It identifies the prevalence of alcohol-related harm by analysing associations between types of drinkers and child maltreatment.
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- - The article analyzes ecological risk factors contributing to abuse against older women, utilizing data from a sample of 2,880 across five European countries.
- - Findings reveal that 30.1% of older women experienced some form of abuse in the past year, highlighting a significant issue.
- - The research suggests that while personal risk factors, like health, are important, understanding abuse also requires considering environmental factors (like loneliness and income) and broader cultural contexts (such as the old age dependency ratio).
Background: Efficient actions to fight elder abuse are highly dependent on reliable dimensions of the phenomenon. Accurate measures are nevertheless difficult to achieve owing to the sensitivity of the topic. Different research endeavours indicate varying prevalence rates, which are explained by different research designs and definitions used, but little is known about measurement errors such as item non-responses and how outcomes are affected by modes of administration.
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- - The article reviews existing research on elder abuse and neglect, specifically focusing on methodologies used to measure prevalence rates across five European countries as part of the AVOW study.
- - It highlights differences in the history of prevalence research among EU countries and points out the lack of reliable prevalence data, often relying on professionals instead of direct input from older individuals.
- - The article emphasizes the importance of developing appropriate research tools and designs to accurately survey this sensitive issue and suggests guidelines for future research in the field.