RT Generic
T1 Changes in Alcohol Use during the COVID-19 Pandemic among Young Adults: The Prospective Effect of Anxiety and Depression [Dataset]
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 significant constraints 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 the impact 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. The sample 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 and February-2020; i.e., before the outbreak of COVID-19) and second follow-up questionnaires (March 2021, a year after the COVID-19 outbreak). Alcohol use (quantity and drinking frequency), depression and 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 use changes, those with more depressive symptoms at the pre-COVID assessment were more resistant to decreasing their drinking quantity and frequency after the COVID-19 outbreak. This information will be of value when designing interventions aimed at reducing harmful alcohol use and highlights the 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 https://hdl.handle.net/10272/23206
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10272/23206
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. [Dataset]. AM (Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Huelva). https://hdl.handle.net/10272/23206
NO Datos primarios asociados al artículo publicado en Journal of Clinical Medicine: https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm10194468
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 31 may 2026