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Author: Veazie, Mark A.
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Veazie, Mark A. |
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Heavy Drinking, Alcoholism and Injuries at Work Ph.D. Dissertation, Johns Hopkins University, 1994 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Addiction; Alcohol Use; Disabled Workers; Health Care; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Job Hazards The purpose of this study was to investigate heavy drinking and alcoholism as risk factors for nonfatal work injury in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Injuries and problems with alcohol significantly diminish health status and quality of life in America and other parts of the world. Unintentional and intentional injuries represent an enormous public health problem as major causes of premature death, disability, health care utilization, economic losses and social and psychological dysfunction. Injury as a disease and alcohol as an exposure are not separate problems. From a research perspective, it is important to know if heavy drinking or alcohol dependence should be measured as potential confounders in future studies of other risk factors and intervention strategies. From a prevention perspective, this study could have two results. The finding that alcohol problems are not associated with injury would contribute to the evidence that occupational injury prevention strategies should not be focused on problem drinking or problem drinkers, but rather on more promising prevention strategies. The finding that alcohol problems are strongly associated with injury would suggest that, in addition to reducing hazards, prevention strategies that reduce problem drinking or target problem drinkers may have some effects on the risk of injury. |
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Veazie, Mark A. Heavy Drinking, Alcoholism and Injuries at Work. Ph.D. Dissertation, Johns Hopkins University, 1994. |
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Veazie, Mark A. Smith, Gordon S. |
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Heavy Drinking, Alcohol Dependence, and Injuries at Work among Young Workers in the United States Labor Force Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 24,12 (December 2000): 1811-1819. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1530-0277.2000.tb01985.x/abstract Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Research Society on Alcoholism and the International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Injuries; Job Hazards; Labor Force Participation Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Background: To determine whether heavily drinking and alcohol-dependent workers are at higher risk of occupational injury, we analyzed the nationally representative cohort of people enrolled in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth since 1979. Methods: This anlaysis was restricted to the 8569 respondents in the 1989 annual interview (age 24-32) who were employed during the 6 months before the interview. We studied occupational injuries (excluding sprains or strains) reported within 6 months of the interview in 1989 (cross-sectional analysis) and 1990 (prospective analysis). Results: Among current drinkers, significant two-fold increases in the odds of injury for one or more episodes of heavy drinking were reduced to an odds ratio (OR) of 1.2 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.7,2.1) in the cross-sectional analysis and an OR of 1.6 (CI 1.0, 2.8) in the prospective analysis after adjustment for confounding. No dose-response relationship with the frequency of heavy drinking was found. Alcohol-dpendent responsents were not at higher risk of injury in the cross-sectional (OR =1.1, CI 0.7, 1.8) or prospective (OR = 1.3, CI 0.8, 2.2) analysis after adjustment for confounding. Conclusions: For young U.S. workers, common occupational injuries (excluding sprains or strains) may not be strongly associated with alcohol dependence. Confounding by other risk factors may explain much of the association between being a heavy drinker and occupational injuries in the population. |
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Bibliography Citation
Veazie, Mark A. and Gordon S. Smith. "Heavy Drinking, Alcohol Dependence, and Injuries at Work among Young Workers in the United States Labor Force." Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 24,12 (December 2000): 1811-1819.
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