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Alcohol-related behaviours, beliefs, and knowledge regarding cancer risk related to alcohol in the New South

26 Feb 2024

Barriers to seeking help to reduce alcohol consumption among participants who consumed alcohol and thought about seeking help but did not seek help to reduce alcohol consumption in the past 12 months. [...] common among participants who exceeded Among participants who consumed alcohol NHMRC guidelines compared to participants within NHMRC guidelines in the past 12 who consumed alcohol within guidelines months and sought help to reduce alcohol (p<0.01). [...] Nearly two-in-five NHMRC guidelines in the past 12 months and (37%) participants who exceeded NHMRC sought help to reduce alcohol consumption, guidelines in the past 12 months thought the most common facilitators of seeking help about seeking help to reduce their alcohol were concerns about future health problems use. [...] Among Our findings from this survey of LGBTQ+ participants who exceeded NHMRC guidelines adults in NSW suggests that there is an in the past 12 months and sought help to opportunity and a need to address harmful reduce alcohol consumption, the most levels of alcohol consumption in this common methods of help sought were: one- population to reduce alcohol-related health to-one sessions with a menta. [...] Beliefs about own alcohol consumption To examine beliefs around alcohol use levels in the community, we created measures on whether participants thought their alcohol use was more, less, or about the same as: 1) adults in NSW, 2) adults in the NSW LGBTQ+ community, and 3) adults in the NSW LGBTQ+ community who are the same as the participant.

Authors

Morgaine Wallace-Steele

Pages
120
Published in
Australia