RT Journal Article
T1 Changes in Alcohol Use during the COVID-19 Pandemic among Young Adults: The Prospective Effect of Anxiety and Depression
A1 Valle Vera, Belén del
A1 Carmona Márquez, José
A1 Lozano Rojas, Óscar Martín
A1 Parrado González, Alberto
A1 Vidal Giné, Claudio
A1 Marcos Pautassi, Ricardo
A1 Fernández Calderón, Fermín
AB Health measures instantiated to reduce the spread of COVID-19 have imposed significantconstraints for the population and impacted on drinking habits and mental health. This study longitudinally compared changes in alcohol consumption before and after the COVID-19 outbreak and theimpact of sociodemographic and mental health variables on such changes among a community sample of young adults. Data were collected in the context of a larger, ongoing longitudinal study. Thesample consisted of 305 young adults from Spain aged between 18 and 26 years (mean age = 21.27,(SD = 2.21), female = 53.4%; college students = 61.6%) who completed first (November-2019 andFebruary-2020; i.e., before the outbreak of COVID-19) and second follow-up questionnaires (March2021, a year after the COVID-19 outbreak). Alcohol use (quantity and drinking frequency), depressionand anxiety symptoms were measured. Quantity and frequency of alcohol use decreased from the preto post-COVID-19 period. A decrease in drinking frequency was observed among college students,but not in noncollege peers. Although we found no effect of pre-COVID-19 anxiety on alcohol usechanges, those with more depressive symptoms at the pre-COVID assessment were more resistant todecreasing their drinking quantity and frequency after the COVID-19 outbreak. This informationwill be of value when designing interventions aimed at reducing harmful alcohol use and highlightsthe role of mental health status when identifying high risk populations of young-adults during this,and future, public health crises
PB MDPI
SN 2077-0383 (electrónico)
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/20256
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/20256
LA eng
NO Vera, B. del V., Carmona-Márquez, J., Lozano-Rojas, Ó. M., Parrado-González, A., Vidal-Giné, C., Pautassi, R. M., & Fernández-Calderón, F. (2021). Changes in Alcohol Use during the COVID-19 Pandemic among Young Adults: The Prospective Effect of Anxiety and Depression. In Journal of Clinical Medicine (Vol. 10, Issue 19, p. 4468). MDPI AG. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm10194468
NO Versión editor
NO Funding for this study was provided by the Consejería de Salud (Junta de Andalucía,Andalucía, Spain) under Grant Number PI-0503-2018 (Principal Investigator: Fermín FernándezCalderón). BV was supported by Fundación Carolina and SEGIB, and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 31 may 2026