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IS THE PREVALENCE OF DRIVING AFTER DRINKING HIGHER IN ENTERTAINMENT AREAS?
Traffic accident
Alcoholic beverage
Porto Alegre
Brazil
Legislation
The authors thank FAPERJ for the scholarship for RDB and long-term support for FIB’s analyses of alcohol misuse and related harmful effects, as well as to Renata Limberger and Fernanda Oliveira ’teams for conducting ELISA analyses.
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Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Centro de Pesquisa de Droga e Álcool. Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil.
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Centro de Pesquisa de Droga e Álcool. Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil.
Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística. Escola Nacional de Ciências Estatísticas. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística. Escola Nacional de Ciências Estatísticas. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde. Laboratório de Informação em Saúde. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Centro de Pesquisa de Droga e Álcool. Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil.
Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística. Escola Nacional de Ciências Estatísticas. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística. Escola Nacional de Ciências Estatísticas. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde. Laboratório de Informação em Saúde. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Abstract
Aims: This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of driving after drinking (DUI) and its associated factors in low and high alcohol outlet density areas (LAOD and HAOD) in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Methods: A probability 3-stage sampling survey was conducted, and 683 drivers who were leaving alcohol outlets (AOs) and had been drinking were interviewed, breathalyzed and saliva was collected for drug screening. Prevalences were assessed using domain estimation and DUI predictors were assessed using logistic models. Results: It was estimated that 151,573 drivers drank at the AO, and intention to DUI was more prevalent in LAOD (59.3 versus 46.1% in HAOD, P = 0.003). On the other hand, HAOD had higher proportions of interviewees with a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of >0.06% (46.6 versus 30.7%, P = 0.002) as well as a more frequent use of cocaine (9.3 versus 2.4%, P = 0.086). In the logistic models, drinking in a LAOD stratum was found to be associated with DUI (OR 1.72 (1.17 – 2.5)) and the two AO density areas presented different factors independently associated with DUI: THC use was significantly associated with the outcome in the HAOD stratum (OR 17.7 - 5.1 – 61.8)), whereas an AUDIT score of >20 was positively associated with DUI in LAOD (OR 23.75 (1.5 – 364.0)). Conclusions: High prevalences of driving under the influence of alcohol were evident in both the high and the low outlet density areas, although with different characteristics. Thorough enforcement of the legislation by random breath testing and sobriety checkpoints should be combined with AO licensing in order to reduce high levels of DUI and traffic accidents.
Keywords
Driving after drinking (DUI)Traffic accident
Alcoholic beverage
Porto Alegre
Brazil
Legislation
Publisher
Oxford
Citation
DE BONI, Raquel B. et al. Is the prevalence of driving after drinking higher in entertainment areas? Alcohol and Alcoholism, v. 48, n. 3, p. 356-362, May/Jun. 2013.DOI
10.1093/alcalc/ags126ISSN
1464-3502Notes
Raquel B. De Boni. Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas. Documento produzido em parceria ou por autor vinculado à Fiocruz, mas não consta a informação no documento.The authors thank FAPERJ for the scholarship for RDB and long-term support for FIB’s analyses of alcohol misuse and related harmful effects, as well as to Renata Limberger and Fernanda Oliveira ’teams for conducting ELISA analyses.
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