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Estimating Prevalence of Bereavement, Its Contribution to Risk for Binge Drinking, and Other High-Risk Health States in a State Population Survey, 2019 Georgia Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey

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  • Toni P. Miles

    (Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregivers, Atlanta, GA 31709, USA
    Department of Health Policy and Management, College of Public Health, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA)

  • Changle Li

    (Department of Health Policy and Management, College of Public Health, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
    School of Health Management, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou 350122, China)

  • M. Mahmud Khan

    (Department of Health Policy and Management, College of Public Health, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA)

  • Rana Bayakly

    (Georgia Department of Public Health, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA)

  • Deborah Carr

    (Center of Innovation in Social Science, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA)

Abstract

Background: Binge drinking is a pattern of alcohol abuse. Its prevalence and associated risk factors are not well documented. Heavy drinking, on the other hand, has a well-documented association with bereavement. This report uses a cross-sectional, population-based survey to estimate prevalence of bingeing and its association with new bereavement. Bingeing is defined as 4 or more drinks (women) or 5 or more drinks (men) in a 2–4-h setting. For the first time in 2019, the Georgia Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (BRFSS) included a bereavement item: ‘Have you experienced the death of a family member or close friend in the years 2018 or 2019?’ Methods: Georgia BRFSS is a complex sampling survey administered annually. It is designed to represent the 8.1 million people aged 18 years and older in the U.S. state of Georgia. Alcohol consumption patterns are routinely measured in the common core. In 2019, the state added a new item probing for bereavement in the prior 24 months predating the COVID-19 pandemic. Imputation and weighting techniques were applied to yield the population prevalence rates of new bereavement, bingeing, and their co-occurrence with other high-risk health behaviors and outcomes. Multivariate models, adjusted for age, gender, and race, were used to estimate the risk for other unhealthy behaviors posed by the co-occurrence of bereavement and bingeing. Results: In Georgia, bereavement (45.8%), and alcohol consumption (48.8%) are common. Bereavement and alcohol use co-occurred among 1,796,817 people (45% of all drinkers) with a subset of 608,282 persons reporting bereavement combined with bingeing. The most common types of bereavement were death of a friend/neighbor (30.7%) or three plus deaths (31.8%). Conclusions: While bingeing is a known risk to public health, its co-occurrence with recent bereavement is a new observation. Public health surveillance systems need to monitor this co-occurrence to protect both individual and societal health. In a time of global bereavement, documenting its influence on binge drinking can support the work towards Sustainable Development Goal #3—Good health and Well-Being.

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  • Toni P. Miles & Changle Li & M. Mahmud Khan & Rana Bayakly & Deborah Carr, 2023. "Estimating Prevalence of Bereavement, Its Contribution to Risk for Binge Drinking, and Other High-Risk Health States in a State Population Survey, 2019 Georgia Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Surv," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(10), pages 1-15, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:20:y:2023:i:10:p:5837-:d:1148310
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