title: [Binge drinking among 12-year-old adolescent schoolchildren and its association with sex, socioeconomic factors and alcohol consumption by best friends and family members].
abstract: This is a cross-sectional study with a convenience sample of 101 twelve-year-old adolescents enrolled in public and private schools in the city of Diamantina in the State of Minas Gerais. The scope was to evaluate the prevalence of binge drinking among 12-year-old schoolchildren and its association with gender, socioeconomic status and alcohol consumption by family members and best friends. The participants completed a self-administered questionnaire entitled the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT-C) and the consumption of alcoholic beverages by friends and family. Parents/guardians answered the form on sociodemographic questions. Descriptive analyses and association tests were performed (p < 0.05). The prevalence of binge drinking was 24.8%. Alcoholic beverage consumption began at the age of 10 (16.8%), though sex was not associated with binge drinking by adolescents. However, attending a public school (0.005) and alcohol consumption by best friends (p < 000.1) were associated with binge drinking by adolescents in the bivariate analysis. The prevalence of binge drinking was high and was associated with low socioeconomic status and alcohol consumption by the best friend. No association between sex and alcohol consumption by the family members of adolescents was detected.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Odontologia, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, Diamantina, MG, Brasil, paulacpp@ig.com.br.
authors.forename: Paula Cristina Pelli
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Paiva
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Odontologia, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, Diamantina, MG, Brasil, paulacpp@ig.com.br.
authors.forename: Haroldo Neves de
authors.initials: HN
authors.lastname: Paiva
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, MG, Brasil.
authors.forename: Joel Alves
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Lamounier
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Saúde Coletiva, Faculdade de Odontologia, UFMG, MG, Brasil.
authors.forename: Efigênia Ferreira E
authors.initials: EF
authors.lastname: Ferreira
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, MG, Brasil.
authors.forename: Carlos Augusto Santos
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: César
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Odontopediatria e Ortodontia, Faculdade de Odontologia, UFMG, MG, Brasil.
authors.forename: Patrícia Maria
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Zarzar
mesh_terms: D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000453:epidemiology; D063425:Binge Drinking / Q000453:epidemiology*; D002648:Child; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005195:Family Relations; D005260:Female; D033062:Friends; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012737:Sex Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors