title: Mexican adolescents' alcohol use, family intimacy, and parent-adolescent communication.
abstract: Despite widespread adolescent alcohol use, research on individual and contextual factors among Mexican adolescents is limited. This study describes the relationship between adolescent risk/protective factors, parent-adolescent communication, and their effects on alcohol use of 14- to 17-year-old adolescents living in Mexico (N = 829; 458 girls, 371 boys). In this study, adolescents reported that 55% ever used alcohol, 24% used alcohol in the past 30 days, and 10% reported binge drinking. Adolescents with high family intimacy were less likely to report ever using alcohol and binge drinking. Regression analysis revealed that parent-adolescent communication mediated the effect of family intimacy on overall and binge drinking. Alcohol use prevention with Mexican adolescents should focus on family intimacy and parent-adolescent communication.
authors.affiliation: Health Promotion and Risk Reduction Programs, University of Michigan, School of Nursing, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5482, USA. kmartyn@umich.edu
authors.forename: Kristy K
authors.initials: KK
authors.lastname: Martyn
authors.forename: Carol J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Loveland-Cherry
authors.forename: Antonia M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Villarruel
authors.forename: Esther
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gallegos Cabriales
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: David L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Ronis
authors.forename: Brenda
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Eakin
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000208:ethnology; D003142:Communication; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005195:Family Relations; D005260:Female; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008800:Mexico / Q000453:epidemiology; D012307:Risk Factors; D014505:Urban Population