Psychosocial and behavioral factors differentiating past drinkers and life-long abstainers

A.M. Eward, R. Wolfe, P. Moll and E. Harburg

American Journal of Public Health, 1986, vol. 76, issue 1, 68-70

Abstract: Studies of the health effects associated with alcohol consumption often use a single non-drinker category as a referrent. 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.

Date: 1986
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