title: Correlates of pro-drinking practices in drinking parents of adolescents in Hong Kong.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Parental alcohol-related practices are important risk factors of adolescent drinking, but little is known about the factors associated with these parental pro-drinking practices (PPDPs). We investigated the correlates of 9 PPDPs in drinking parents of adolescents in Hong Kong.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 2200 students (age 14.8±2.0; boys 63.2%) participated in a school-based cross-sectional survey in 2012. Analysis was restricted to 1087 (61.8%) students with at least 1 drinking parent as PPDPs were much more common in these families. Logistic regression was used to identify correlates of each PPDP.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Among 1087 students, the prevalence of PPDPs ranged from 8.2% for training drinking capacity to 65.7% for seeing parents drink. Only 14.8% of students had not experienced any of these practices. More frequent maternal drinking predicted parental training of drinking capacity. Older age predicted helping parents buy alcohol and parental encouragement of drinking. Adolescent girls were more likely to have received parental training of drinking capacity than boys. Higher perceived family affluence was associated with hearing parents saying benefits of drinking, and helping parents open bottle and pour alcohol.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  PPDPs were associated with parental drinking frequency and various socio-demographic factors. These results have implications on alcohol control programmes involving parents to tailor messages for reducing PPDPs based on the characteristics of adolescents and parents.
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
authors.forename: Wing Man
authors.initials: WM
authors.lastname: Au
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
authors.forename: Sai Yin
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Ho
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
authors.forename: Man Ping
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
authors.forename: Wing Sze
authors.initials: WS
authors.lastname: Lo
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
authors.forename: Sze Pui Pamela
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Tin
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
authors.forename: Rong
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
authors.forename: Tai Hing
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Lam
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D000328:Adult; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000453:epidemiology*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006723:Hong Kong / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents; D012307:Risk Factors