Change and stability in British drinking practices and culture between 2009 and 2019: A longitudinal latent class analysis of drinking occasions.

This paper describes changes in the prevalence and performance of the predominant alcohol drinking practices that comprised British drinking culture between 2009 and 2019. Latent class analyses of cross-sectional data collected between 2009 and 2019 was used for an event-level diary survey of adults in Great Britain. The measures describe occasion characteristics including companions, location, motivation, temporalities, accompanying activities and alcohol consumed. We identified 15 practice formats; 4 off-trade (e.g. home), 8 on-trade (e.g. bar) and 3 mixed-trade. The prevalence of practice formats was largely stable over time except for shifts away from drinking with a partner and towards drinking alone in the off-trade, and shifts away from Big nights out and towards other forms of heavy drinking in the on-trade. We identified five key trends in practice performances: (i) spirits increasingly displaced wine as the main beverage consumed in occasions; (ii) home-drinking moved away from routinised wine-drinking with meals on weekdays and towards spirits-drinking on weekends; (iii) the Male friends at the pub practice format changed less than other forms of pub-drinking; (iv) Big nights out started later, often in nightclubs, and involved less pub-drinking or heavy drinking and (v) the meal-based and Going out with partner practice formats showed relative stability.

HOLMES John;  SASSO Alessandro;  HERNÁNDEZ ALAVA Monica;  STEVELY KATE Abigail;  WARDE Alan;  ANGUS Colin;  MEIER Petra Sylvia; 

2023-11-20

ELSEVIER SCI LTD

JRC134294

2352-8273 (online),   

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827323002136,    https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC134294,   

10.1016/j.ssmph.2023.101548 (online),