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Why are Spanish Adolescents Binge Drinkers? Focus Group with Adolescents and Parents

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  • José Manuel Martínez-Montilla

    (Department of Health Promotion, School for Public Health and Primary Care CAPHRI, Maastricht University, 6229 HA Maastricht, Limburg, The Netherlands
    Department of Nursing, School of Nursing, Physiotherapy and Podiatry, University of Seville, 41009 Seville, Spain)

  • Liesbeth Mercken

    (Department of Health Promotion, School for Public Health and Primary Care CAPHRI, Maastricht University, 6229 HA Maastricht, Limburg, The Netherlands)

  • Marta Lima-Serrano

    (Department of Nursing, School of Nursing, Physiotherapy and Podiatry, University of Seville, 41009 Seville, Spain)

  • Hein de Vries

    (Department of Health Promotion, School for Public Health and Primary Care CAPHRI, Maastricht University, 6229 HA Maastricht, Limburg, The Netherlands)

  • Joaquín S. Lima-Rodríguez

    (Department of Nursing, School of Nursing, Physiotherapy and Podiatry, University of Seville, 41009 Seville, Spain)

Abstract

Binge drinking in adolescents is a worldwide public healthcare problem. The aim of this study was to explore the perceptions about determinants of binge drinking in Spanish adolescents from the perspective of adolescents and parents. A qualitative study using fourteen semi-structured focus groups of adolescents was conducted during the 2014/2015 school year ( n = 94), and four with parents ( n = 19), based on the I-Change Model for health behaviour acquisition. Students had a low level of knowledge and risk perception and limited self-efficacy. Girls reported more parental control, and when they get drunk, society perceives them worse. Adolescents suggested focus preventive actions to improve self-efficacy and self-esteem. Parents were permissive about alcohol drinking but rejected binge drinking. They offered alcohol to their children, mainly during celebrations. A permissive family environment, lack of control by parents, adolescents’ low-risk perception, low self-esteem and self-efficacy, as well as the increase of binge drinking in girls as part of the reduction of the gender gap, emerge as risk factors for binge drinking. Future health programmes aimed at reducing binge drinking should focus on enhancing motivational factors, self-esteem, and self-efficacy in adolescents; supervision and parental control; as well as pre-motivational factors by increasing knowledge and risk awareness, considering gender differences.

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  • José Manuel Martínez-Montilla & Liesbeth Mercken & Marta Lima-Serrano & Hein de Vries & Joaquín S. Lima-Rodríguez, 2020. "Why are Spanish Adolescents Binge Drinkers? Focus Group with Adolescents and Parents," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(10), pages 1-21, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:17:y:2020:i:10:p:3551-:d:360257
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    1. José Antonio Ponce-Blandón & José Manuel Martínez-Montilla & Manuel Pabón-Carrasco & Raúl Martos-García & Aurora Castro-Méndez & Rocío Romero-Castillo, 2021. "International Multicenter Study on Drug Consumption in Nursing Students," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(18), pages 1-13, September.
    2. Marta Lima-Serrano & Pablo Fernández-León & Liesbeth Mercken & José Manuel Martínez-Montilla & Hein de Vries, 2021. "An Animation- Versus Text-Based Computer-Tailored Game Intervention to Prevent Alcohol Consumption and Binge Drinking in Adolescents: Study Protocol," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(19), pages 1-16, September.
    3. María Ángeles García-Carpintero-Muñoz & Lorena Tarriño-Concejero & Rocío de Diego-Cordero, 2020. "Consumption of Substances in Nightlife Settings: A Qualitative Approach in Young Andalusians (Spain)," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(16), pages 1-17, August.

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