Multiple trajectories of alcohol use and the development of alcohol use disorder: Do Swiss men mature-out of problematic alcohol use during emerging adulthood?

Lemoine, Mélissa; Gmel, Gerhard; Foster, Simon; Marmet, Simon; Studer, Joseph

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0220232

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Lemoine, M., Gmel, G., Foster, S., Marmet, S., & Studer, J. (2020). Multiple trajectories of alcohol use and the development of alcohol use disorder: Do Swiss men mature-out of problematic alcohol use during emerging adulthood? PLoS ONE, 15, e0220232. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0220232

Abstract

(A) OBJECTIVE

This study aimed to identify trajectories of alcohol use (AU) and their associations with the development of alcohol use disorder (AUD) among young men with different weekly drinking patterns.

(B) METHOD

A longitudinal latent class analysis integrating several aspects of AU, such as drinking quantity and frequency on weekends vs workweek days, involving 4719 young Swiss men at ages 20, 21, and 25, and collected by the Cohort Study on Substance Use Risk Factors, was used to identify different AU trajectories over time.