Holmes, J., Sasso, A., Hernández Alava, M., Stevely, A. K., Warde, A., Angus, C. and Meier, P. S. (2023) Change and stability in British drinking practices and culture between 2009 and 2019: A longitudinal latent class analysis of drinking occasions. Social Science and Medicine, 24, 101548. (doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2023.101548)
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Abstract
Rationale Theories of practice can support understanding of health-related behaviours, but few studies use quantitative methods to understand time-trends in practices. This paper describes changes in the prevalence and performance of alcohol drinking practices in Great Britain between 2009 and 2019. Methods Latent class analyses of annual cross-sectional data collected between 2009 and 2019. The dataset come from a one-week retrospective diary survey of adults resident in Great Britain. It contains 604,578 drinking occasions reported by 213,470 adults (18+) who consumed alcohol in the diary-week. The measures describe occasion characteristics including companions, location, motivation, timings, accompanying activities and alcohol consumed. We estimate separate latent class models for each year and for off-trade only (e.g. home), on-trade only (e.g. bar) and mixed-trade occasions. Results We identified fifteen practices; four off-trade only, eight on-trade only and three mixed-trade. The prevalence of practices was largely stable over time except for shifts away from drinking with a partner and towards drinking alone in the off-trade, and shifts away from Big nights out and towards other forms of heavy drinking in the on-trade. We identified five key trends in the performance of practices: (i) spirits increasingly replaced wine as the main beverage consumed in occasions; (ii) home-drinking moved away from routinised wine-drinking with meals on weekdays and towards spirits-drinking on weekends; (iii) the Male friends at the pub practice changed less than other pub-drinking practices; (iv) Big nights out started later, often in nightclubs, and involved less pub-drinking or heavy drinking and (v) the meal-based and Going out with partner practice formats showed few changes over time. Conclusion Key recent trends in British drinking practices include a decline in routinised wine-drinking at home, a transformation of big nights out and a mixture of stability and change in pub- and meal-based practices.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Additional Information: | This work was supported by Economic and Social Research Council Grant Number ES/R005257/1. |
| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Meier, Professor Petra |
| Creator Roles: | Meier, P.Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review and editing, Supervision, Project administration, Funding acquisition |
| Authors: | Holmes, J., Sasso, A., Hernández Alava, M., Stevely, A. K., Warde, A., Angus, C., and Meier, P. S. |
| College/School: | College of Medical Veterinary and Life Sciences > School of Health & Wellbeing > MRC/CSO SPHSU |
| Journal Name: | Social Science and Medicine |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 0277-9536 |
| ISSN (Online): | 1873-5347 |
| Published Online: | 04 November 2023 |
| Copyright Holders: | Copyright: © 2023 The Authors |
| First Published: | First published in Social Science and Medicine 24: 101548 |
| Publisher Policy: | Reproduced under a Creative Commons licence |
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