Search for dissertations about: "alcohol use disorder epidemiology"

Found 5 swedish dissertations containing the words alcohol use disorder epidemiology.

  1. 1. Women's alcohol and drug use. Risk indicators from everyday life

    Author : Christina Andersson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : Alcohol; substance use; drinking context; patterns of everyday occupations; epidemiology; women;

    Abstract : Aims: The overall aim of this thesis was to explore how various aspects of everyday life, measured using self-reported experiences from childhood, adolescence and adulthood were associated with alcohol and drug use in a population-based sample of Swedish women. Methods: The thesis is based on data from the “Women and Alcohol in Gothenburg” project, a Swedish three-wave longitudinal, population-based, multi-purpose study. READ MORE

  2. 2. Exploring the relationship between alcohol use disorders and internalising disorders in longitudinal cohorts of adolescents

    Author : Lina Homman; Francis O'Neill; UK Queen's University Belfast; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Alcohol use disorder; Mental health; Children; Youth; Comorbidity; Longitudinal analysis;

    Abstract : The literature supports a relationship between alcohol use disorders and internalising disorders, but how they relate to each other is unclear. Both disorders, as well as their comorbidity increase in adolescence, making adolescence of particular interest. READ MORE

  3. 3. Environmental and Genetic Influences in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and its Comorbidities

    Author : Andrea Johansson Capusan; Preben Bendtsen; Henrik Larsson; Ina Marteinsdottir Marteinsdottir; Jaakko Kaprio; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : Research in past decades has demonstrated the persistence of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) into adulthood, but many questions regarding prevalence, causes, and comorbidities of ADHD in adults remain to be investigated. Previous research focusing on childhood ADHD identified high heritability. READ MORE

  4. 4. Adolescent Gaming and Gambling in Relation to Negative Social Consequences and Health

    Author : Charlotta Hellström; Cecilia Åslund; Kent Nilsson; Jerzy Leppert; Per Binde; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Adolescents; Depression; Gambling; Gaming; Health; Musculoskeletal symptoms; Negative social consequences; Psychosomatic Symptoms.; Family Medicine; Allmänmedicin;

    Abstract : The aims of the thesis were to study relationships between the effects of online gaming and gambling and negative social consequences and ill health among adolescents and to determine whether gaming and gambling activities occur together.The papers in this thesis used epidemiological methods to obtain self-report information from Swedish adolescents aged 13–18 years. READ MORE

  5. 5. Measuring harm from drinking in Sweden : Self-reports from drinkers in the general population

    Author : Klara Hradilova Selin; Robin Room; Lorraine Midanik; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Key words: AUDIT measure; validity; reliability; harm from drinking; social problems; summary measures; predictors of alcohol-related harm; general population surveys.; Sociology; Sociologi;

    Abstract : There are several traditions of conceptualizing and measuring harm from drinking. Two main approaches are considered in the introduction – the psychiatric epidemiology and the social survey research traditions. READ MORE