title: Drinking patterns between men and women in two distinct Brazilian communities.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  A survey was conducted to compare gender differences in patterns of drinking in two stratified, urban and representative samples from two communities (B and RJr).
  
  
  METHODS
  The Genacis (Gender, Alcohol, and Culture: an International Study) questionnaire was used.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There were several significant differences in the demographics and patterns of alcohol use between these two samples. One had an older, more Catholic, educated, Caucasian population, with more women in the labor force. Data from B community showed that women and men had similar patterns of drinking. RJr had much higher use of alcohol among men, and almost 22% of those under 49 years old were binge drinkers.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Access, smoking, income and having a heavy drinker partner were important risk factors for women's drinking.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study shows that when women's roles become more similar to men's, so do their drinking patterns.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Psychology and Psychiatry, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Florence
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kerr-Corrêa
authors.forename: Adriana Marcassa
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Tucci
authors.forename: Andrea Mary
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Hegedus
authors.forename: Luzia Aparecida
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Trinca
authors.forename: Janaina Barbosa
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: de Oliveira
authors.forename: Tricia Maria Feitosa
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Floripes
authors.forename: Ligia Regina Franco Sansigolo
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Kerr
mesh_terms: D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D017533:Marital Status; D008875:Middle Aged; D016017:Odds Ratio; D012737:Sex Factors; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology; D012919:Social Behavior; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014505:Urban Population