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Sammanfattning
Background. Adolescents’ alcohol consumption is related to their parents’ alcohol consumption, but little focus has been placed on whether there is a connection with parental intoxication. The purpose of the study was to investigate whether the experience of seeing their parents intoxicated is associated with adolescents alcohol consumption and experimenting with drugs in their teens.
Material and method. The study is prospective and based on data from 2 399 teenagers who took part in the Ung-HUNT 1 study in 1995–1997 and the Ung-HUNT 2 study in 2000-2001. Self-reported questionnaire data and analysis by means of logistic regression, stratified by gender, were used.
Results. Having been drunk > 10 times was associated with having seen their parents intoxicated among both boys (OR 3.7; 95% CI 2.7-5.1 and girls (OR 2.0; 1.5-2.6). Drinking alcohol weekly or more frequently was associated with parental intoxication among boys (OR 2.2; 1.6-3.0), but not girls unless they had seen their parents drunk many times (OR 2.4; 1.1-5.2). Experimenting with drugs was associated with parental intoxication among both boys (OR 2.6; 1.7-3.9) and girls (OR 1.6; 1.1-2.2).
Interpretation. Repeated intoxication, frequent alcohol use and experimenting with drugs by teenagers were associated with seeing their parents intoxicated. There are other explanatory factors that this study was unable to control for, and any interpretation of results should take this into account.