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La consommation d'alcool chez les Canadiens âgés de 55 ans et plus : étude des différences sur 10 ans et de l'association avec la perception de la santé
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Moriconi, Pascale-Audrey |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Abstract | The aim of the thesis is to contribute to a better conceptual and empirical understanding of alcohol consumption among men and women aged 55 years and older from the general Canadian population. The two general objectives pursued are to gain a better understanding of the potential influence of the social/environmental context on drinking habits among older adults and to achieve a clearer discernment of the relation between alcohol consumption and health. The thesis comprises two empirical articles relating to each respective objective. More specifically, the first article verified whether contextual changes associated to alcohol and unique to the decade spanning the 1990s may have had an impact on alcohol consumption (period effect) by comparing two subsamples of older adults from two Canadian surveys: the 1994 CADS (Canada’s Alcohol and other Drugs Survey) and 2004 GENACIS (GENder, Alcohol, and Culture: an International Study). The article also assessed if the context had a significant effect on the differences observed when age, subjective perception of health and the sociodemographic composition of the samples were taken into consideration. Results first show that, in a social/environmental context that is more favourable to drinking in general, the rates of current drinkers, binge drinking, beer and wine drinkers are significantly higher in 2004. In addition, drinking profiles were not significantly different between 1994 and 2004 (volume, frequency, quantity, maximum quantity), pointing at the potential impact of normal physiological changes due to aging on drinking profiles. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://papyrus.bib.umontreal.ca/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1866/7095/Moriconi_Pascale-Audrey_2012_these.pdf;jsessionid=E3DB766F722CCA1D7A9F440AD552E11E?sequence=7 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
