Stress and Alcohol Intake among Hispanic Adult Immigrants in the U.S. Midwest

Jacqueline Rodriguez, Lilian Golzarri-Arroyo, Cindy Rodriguez and Gerardo Maupomé ()
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Jacqueline Rodriguez: Department of Global Health, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
Lilian Golzarri-Arroyo: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health Bloomington, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
Cindy Rodriguez: Department of Global Health, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
Gerardo Maupomé: Department of Global Health, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 23, 1-10

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Hispanic immigrants; alcohol intake; alcohol use disorder; perceived stress; socioeconomic status; Mexican-Americans; Central-Americans (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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