Studies for this review were collected using databases such as Google Scholar, Science Direct, and BioMEd Central. Peer Reviewed literature was examined from 2005 to 2015. A total of forty-five studies were examined with ten being used for this review. Cross-Sectional studies and reviews of longitudinal studies were used. Data was collected using primary sources that are first hand observational. Data was collected from questionnaires, interviews, assessment waves, surveys, and focus groups. Most studies were cross-sectional studies (Garcia (2014), Morleo (2013), Lui (2014), Nash (2005), Barnow (2002). Reviews of longitudinal studies were also examined (Jester (2014), Visser (2012), Humskey (2010). A longitudinal study was examined (Degenhardt …show more content…
There arises a legal and ethical issue in using them for tests and experiments to identify the link between stress and other factors with alcoholism. The reviewed research met the legal and ethical expectations by providing consent forms for the parents of the participating children to sign. The participants used are also the willing children and participating on voluntary basis. The research also receives approval from ethical bodies to go on with the research. However, IRB was not discussed in all studies. In Morleo et al. cross-sectional study, the child and parent were provided with verbal and written consent, children over the age of sixteen provided consent for themselves. The Ethical Committee of Liverpoool John Moores Univeristy approved this study. Degenhardt et al., (2015) prospective cohort study, informed written parental consent. The Ethics in Human Research Committee of the Royal Melbourne Children’s Hospital approved all data collection in this study. Researcher Nash, McQueen, & Bray (2005) provided informed passive parental consent to four school districts the other two districts required active parental consent. The Baylor College of Medicine Institutional Review Board approved all of the study procedures and materials for this study. Humensky (2010), there was no consent form, however, the University of Chicago Social and Behavioral Sciences Institutional Review Board approved the …show more content…
This was used to collect information from the adolescents. The SSAGA was used to establish the alcohol related problems associated with the adolescents (Barnow et al., (2002). S.G. Nash et al., (2005) used three waves of longitudinal school-based studies focusing on alcohol use among adolescents. The monitoring the future (MTF) national survey was used Liu et al. study. Granville-Garcia (2014) used a self-administered semi-structured questionnaire. A two-stage cluster sampling procedure was used to select the study population (Degenhardt et al., (2015). Visser et al., review of longitudinal studies, used databases (Medline, PsycINFO, and EMBASE. Morleo et al., (2013) used surveys from fourteen school events. Janssen et al., used focus groups for the qualitative study. The National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health (AddHealth) obtained the data for Humskey’s (2010) study. Assessment waves and the Beverage Opinion Questionnaire were used to assess data in Jester et al.
The use of alcoholic beverages is very popular, especially with under-aged teenagers. They often get surrounded with the wrong friends, parties, or older people such as college students and begin to drink without earning information about the
“According to the CDC, about 90% of all teen alcohol consumption occurs in the form of Binge Drinking, which experts say peaks at the age of nineteen.” (qtd by Listfield). Binge Drinking is the consumption of excessive amounts of alcohol in a short period of time. The author, Emily Listfield, defines that the standard alcohol consumption over a two hour period is considered to be four beers for women and five beers for men. This has become a great distraction for college students nationwide and a major dilemma on college campuses. Nearly two hundred thousand students visit emergency rooms each year due to the abuse of alcohol, and more than one thousand seven hundred students die. In the article “ The Underage Drinking Epidemic”, Listfield identifies the problems that underage drinking can cause, the dangers that could happen, and four solutions on what parents can do to keep their kids from binge drinking.
This was a cross-sectional study, conducted using data collected from four hospitals affiliated with the Medical Mashhad University of Medical Sciences (MUMS). The four hospitals were chosen because they vary in the demographics of the communities they serve, in size and setting. Hospital 1 is a 918-bed general hospital with an average of approximately 4517 inpatients per month (mean 4517.3, standard deviation [SD] ± 417); Hospital 2 is a 837-bed general hospital with an average of approximately 5121 inpatients per month (mean 5120.6, SD ± 385); Hospital 3 is a 136-bed woman’s hospital with an average of approximately 1073 inpatients per month
Today, in the United States, alcohol is for many teenagers like opening Pandora’s Box, and “it ranks as the fourth leading preventable cause of death in the United States” (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse). Therefore, it is a very serious issue and is not that easy to act
Abstract of this article offer clear overview of the study, by explaining what was accomplish and what was the significant of the study. (Kagnovi et al Peer Research October 2017)
Alcohol use is a common use during adolescence and elderly in the United States. Some individuals may starts alcohol consumption earlier in childhood. It is known that most college-aged students drink more heavily because they want to do what they friend do. More adolescents drink alcohol and used drugs when social events, peer pressure and want to impress a popular group. Later there had been a lot of alcohol, binge drinking in this society. The dangers of drink among elderly and adolescence is have a motor vehicle crash. It have been known that car crashes is the main cause of death among drug and alcohol user Some life stress plays a part that can cause the influence of alcohol abuse, among adolescence. Their parents can help by monitoring
Underage alcohol drinking can have devastating effects on teenagers. It can affect teens' grades, health and many other things as well. The reasons why teenagers consume alcohol are pretty clear. What aren’t clear are the solutions to eliminating, or at least reducing the number of underage drinkers. It is vital that we do something to at least suppress this problem. By taking action, we can greatly reduce the number of underage drinkers and it could also save not only their lives, but also someone else's life as well. Underage drinking can cause many health problems as well as educational problems in a teen’s life; therefore our country needs to decrease the number of underage drinkers by increasing both the price of alcohol as well as the legal drinking age.
Cullen and Gendreau compare and contrast the many studies on this subject, the meta-analyses conclusions, their strengths, weaknesses, inconsistencies, and the trends that follow the studies
A third reason for teenagers drinking alcohol is they see their family members such as parents or siblings drinking or abusing alcohol. More often than not, if parents don’t have a firm hand in monitoring their children’s behaviors, those children may be more apt to drink. In addition if teens are told by their parents they can’t drink, that can trigger them to go against the rules and rebel. Not only does having family members suffer from alcoholism influence teen drinking, but access to alcohol from parents can contribute to alcohol-related problems as well (Wood, 2013).
Teenagers are America’s greatest natural resource, and they need to be protected from some of the evils that lurk in the world. A subject that needs special attention is the abuse of alcohol by teens. Statistics show that there is a problem currently between teens and alcohol. There are many causes of teenage drinking and effects that prove that drinking is an important issue that needs to be dealt with to preserve American teenagers. Teenage drinking will become worse of a problem if it continues unchecked on its current path to destruction. Alcohol abuse among teenagers in the United States is a plague that is destroying the structure of American society.
It is my belief that pediatricians and health care providers need to access complete patient/family histories and deal directly with alcohol and drug-related risk factors. Doctors need to provide appropriate intervention when alcohol (or drugs use) is apparent during screening (“Alcohol Use,” 2013). They need to provide access to local resources, discuss the hazards of alcohol and substance abuse with their patients and encourage guardians to be supportive, healthy role models. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends all teenaged patients be screened for potential substance abuse and that counseling be provided during routine medical care (Underwood, 2010).
Underage drinking is very common in the United States. Alcohol is the most commonly used and abused drug in the United States, even more so than illicit drugs (Marijuana, Cocaine, etc…) and tobacco. “In 2012 the National Survey on Drug Use and Health reported that 24% of youth aged 12 to 20 years drink alcohol and 15% reported binge drinking. In 2013, the Monitoring the Future Survey reported that 28% of 8th graders and 68%
According to current statistics released by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, “In the United States in 2011, there were an estimated 25.1 million adolescents aged 12 to 17. In the past year, more than one quarter of adolescents drank alcohol, approximately one fifth used an illicit drug, and almost one eighth smoked cigarettes” ("A Day in the Life of American Adolescents," 2013, para. 1). Substance abuse is major problem amongst adolescents. Some are experimenting, but some adolescents may become dependent on a particular substance. If one becomes dependent on a substance as an adolescent it could be detrimental to their future health and success as an adult. Spear (2003) stated in an article titled Alcohol’s
Nearly 25 percent of teens drink alcohol because they think it is fun; however the problems it may bring are not so fun (Hyde 22). There over six times more teen deaths per year from alcohol than any other drug (O’Malley 30). Alcohol affects the body of teens as well as all of the developmental processes. A major issue of teens drinking is that it increases the chance of becoming an alcoholic in the future; which leads to lowered self-control, impaired judgment, and lowered inhibition (Heath 12). Alcohol can completely change the life of a teen from the time they start drinking till death. Alcohol affects so many aspects of a person’s life and once it does, it is so hard to get life back to normal. Alcohol effects teens by harming them
Teenage alcohol abuse is one of the major problems that affect academic performance, cause health problems and is responsible for the death of teenage drivers and sometime their passengers. Many teens drink because they think it is cool and do not understand the dangers of drinking alcohol. In 2008 a survey on the students views on alcohol was conducted in the Atlanta Public School System of 4,241 students surveyed results showed 74% of sixth graders felt there was a health risk while 25% felt there was no health risk; 81% of eighth graders felt there was a health risk, while 19% felt there was none; 82% of tenth graders felt there was a health risk, while 18% felt there was none, and 84% of twelve graders felt there was a health risk,