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Journal article
Justifications for heavy alcohol use among gender and sexually diverse people
Global Public Health , Vol.17(9), pp.2018-2033
2022
PMID: 34369856
Abstract
A range of research reports that many gender and sexually diverse people drink alcohol at heavy levels. This study used 24 focus groups to explore shared understandings of alcohol use among gender and sexually diverse people living in New Zealand. An inductive, data-driven thematic analysis was employed to identify explanations for heavy drinking among gender and sexually diverse people. Three key explanations were articulated: alcohol is needed for socialising; drinking helps coping with stress; alcohol and drug treatment services are inadequate. These results demonstrate justifications for heavy drinking in certain contexts. This behaviour runs counter to public health approaches and messages that highlight low-risk levels of drinking or not drinking as desirable. Public health interventions should continue to address alcohol use at a whole population level but should be supplemented by policy and interventions that take into account the sociocultural contexts and structural conditions that encourage drinking among gender and sexually diverse people.
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- Title
- Justifications for heavy alcohol use among gender and sexually diverse people
- Authors
- Jeffery Adams (Corresponding Author) - Massey UniversityLanuola Asiasiga - Massey UniversityStephen Neville - Auckland University of Technology
- Publication details
- Global Public Health , Vol.17(9), pp.2018-2033
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Date published
- 2022
- DOI
- 10.1080/17441692.2021.1957492
- ISSN
- 1744-1706
- PMID
- 34369856
- Copyright note
- © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
- Grant note
- This work was supported by Te Hiringa Hauora/Health Promotion Agency of New Zealand.
- Organisation Unit
- Healthy Ageing Research Cluster; School of Health - Nursing
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991110934002621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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