Table 4.
APISE attitudes to alcohol control policies.
| Group A | Meana |
Group A factor loadingsb |
Group B factor loadingsb PCA 1 |
Group B factor loadingsb PCA 2 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Restricting availability | Provision of health information and treatment services | Pricing | Reducing anti-social behaviours, harms, and underage sales | Pricing | Greater law enforcement | ||
| Restricting availability | 3.12 | – | – | ||||
| Restrictions on numbers of places selling alcohol in your community | 0.763c | 0.086 | – | – | – | – | |
| Earlier closing times for buying alcohol from off-licenses and supermarkets | 0.775 | 0.088 | – | – | – | – | |
| An increase in the price of alcohol | 0.777 | 0.186 | – | – | – | – | |
| Pricing based on alcohol strength so that the stronger a drink is the more it costs | 0.608 | 0.306 | – | – | – | – | |
| Provision of health information and treatment services | 4.04 | – | – | – | – | ||
| Labels on alcohol products warning of the harms of alcohol | 0.242 | 0.721 | – | – | – | – | |
| Public information campaigns to raise awareness of harms from alcohol | 0.220 | 0.785 | – | – | – | – | |
| More treatment services to help dependent drinkers | 0.023 | 0.693 | – | – | – | – | |
| Chronbach's alpha | 0.748 | 0.622 | |||||
| Group B | |||||||
| Pricing | 3.12 | ||||||
| An increase in the price of alcohol | – | – | 0.815 | −0.010 | 0.869 | 0.038 | |
| Pricing based on alcohol strength so that the stronger a drink is the more it costs | – | – | 0.789 | 0.047 | 0.850 | 0.119 | |
| Reducing anti-social behaviours (ASB), harm, and under age sales | 4.32 | ||||||
| Greater enforcement of laws on under-age sales | – | – | 0.102 | 0.790 | 0.114 | 0.833 | |
| Reducing the drink driving limit | – | – | 0.304 | 0.112 | – | – | |
| Doctors or health professionals asking patients about their drinking habits | – | – | 0.496 | 0.145 | – | – | |
| A complete ban on drinking on public transport | – | – | 0.397 | 0.434 | – | – | |
| More police patrolling streets when bars and nightclubs close | – | – | 0.051 | 0.839 | 0.039 | 0.853 | |
| Chronbach's alpha | 0.661 | 0.454 | 0.661 | 0.609 | |||
a
The mean lies on a scale of 1 strongly oppose; 2 oppose; 3 neither support nor oppose; 4 support; 5 strongly support.
b
Factor loadings are from principal component analysis using Varimax rotation. The eigenvalues and percent variance explained by two factors restricting availability and provision of health information and treatment services in Group A were, respectively; 2.88, 41.11%; 1.15, 16.38%. In the first PCA for Group B “PCA 1” for pricing and reducing anti-social behaviours, harms, and underage sales; 2.12, 30.30%; 1.23, 17.54%. In the second PCA for Group B “PCA 2” for pricing and greater law enforcement; 1.73, 43.21%; 1.20, 30.05%.
c
Loadings greater than 0.5 marked in bold.