Table 4.
Predicting harmful/hazardous alcohol use at age 16 using patterns of alcohol frequency and consumption
| AUDIT score |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0–7 points non-hazardous use (65.3%) |
8–15 points hazardous use (29.1%) |
16 or more points harmful use (5.6%) |
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| Prevalence |
Unadjusted OR (95% CI) |
Prevalence |
Unadjusted OR (95% CI) |
Prevalence |
Unadjusted OR (95% CI) |
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| Drinking frequency (n = 4092) | ||||||
| Low (56.0%) | 76.0% | 1.00 ref | 21.2% | 1.00 ref | 2.8% | 1.00 ref |
| Medium (31.4%) | 56.1% | 1.00 ref | 36.7% | 2.34 (1.93, 2.84) | 7.2% | 3.48 (2.28, 5.31) |
| High (12.7%) | 40.2% | 1.00 ref | 45.2% | 4.03 (3.15, 5.17) | 14.5% | 9.87 (6.52, 14.9) |
| Typical consumption (n = 4086) | ||||||
| Low (61.7%) | 74.2% | 1.00 ref | 22.5% | 1.00 ref | 3.3% | 1.00 ref |
| Medium (31.1%) | 53.9% | 1.00 ref | 38.0% | 2.33 (1.94, 2.80) | 8.1% | 3.32 (2.33, 4.73) |
| High (7.3%) | 38.0% | 1.00 ref | 47.2% | 4.11 (2.95, 5.72) | 14.7% | 8.63 (5.32, 14.0) |
Prevalence indicates the prevalence of each AUDIT outcome group within each latent class, e.g. 76% of the low-frequency drinkers obtain an AUDIT score of 0–7 at age 16 years. Odds ratios from multinomial regression models using the non-hazardous use outcome level as the reference. Frequency and consumption measures were obtained from LLCA using partially observed data set.