How is alcohol consumption and heavy episodic drinking spread across different types of drinking occasion in Great Britain: An event-level latent class analysis

Aims: To update a previous typology of British alcohol drinking occasions using a more recent and expanded dataset and a new modelling procedure. To estimate the average consumption level, proportion of total alcohol consumption and proportion of all heavy drinking occasions associated with each occasion type. Design: Latent class analysis of event-level data. Measurements: Drinking occasion characteristics for off-trade only, on-trade only and mixed trade occasions. These describe companions, venue and location, purpose, motivation, accompanying activities, time of day, day of week, consumption volume in units and predominant beverage consumed. Findings: We identified 15 occasion types; 4 off-trade only, 8 on-trade only and 3 mixed-trade. Mean consumption per occasion varied between 4.4 units in Family meals to 17.7 units in Big nights out with pre-loading. Mean consumption exceeded ten units in all mixed-trade occasion types and in Off-trade get together (10.4 units), Big nights out (11.1 units) and Male friends at the pub (10.2 units). Three off-trade occasion types accounted for 50.8% of all alcohol and 51.8% of heavy drinking occasions: Quiet drink at home alone, Evening at home with partner and Off-trade get together. For thirteen out of fifteen occasion types, more than 25% of occasions involved heavy drinking. Conversely, 41.7% of Big nights out and 16.4% of Big nights out with pre-loading were not heavy drinking occasions.

HOLMES John;  SASSO Alessandro;  HERNÁNDEZ ALAVA Monica;  BORGES NEVES Rita;  STEVELY KATE Abigail;  WARDE Alan;  MEIER Petra Sylvia; 

2024-04-11

ELSEVIER

JRC134458

0955-3959 (online),   

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0955395924000999,    https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC134458,   

10.1016/j.drugpo.2024.104414 (online),