Prevalence and psycho-social factors associated with alcohol use among primary school-going children aged 6 to 13 years in Mbale district, Uganda: a cross-sectional study
Joyce Sserunjogi Nalugya, Noeline Nakasujja, Ingunn M S Engebretsen, Catherine Abbo, James K Tumwine, Seggane Musisi, Juliet N Babirye, Etheldreda Nakimuli Mpungu, Grace Ndeezi · 2024
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A nine-author team measures how many young schoolchildren in Mbale district, Uganda, drink alcohol, and what sits behind it. The cross-sectional study sampled 470 child-parent pairs from primary schools. Children aged 6 to 13 were screened with a validated local-language tool, and alcohol use disorder was checked with a child psychiatric interview. The median child age was 11.
In the past year, 25.2 percent of the children had used alcohol, and 7.2 percent met the bar for alcohol use disorder. Boys and girls drank at nearly the same rates. Older children, aged 10 to 13, drank more than the 6 to 9 group, 28.1 percent against 17.6 percent. Use clustered where children lived with a single parent, where caregivers had less schooling, and where household income ran low. The authors flag early drinking as a real, understudied problem.
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| CREATOR | Joyce Sserunjogi Nalugya, Noeline Nakasujja, Ingunn M S Engebretsen, Catherine Abbo, James K Tumwine, Seggane Musisi, Juliet N Babirye, Etheldreda Nakimuli Mpungu, Grace Ndeezi |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 54 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |