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The role of monitoring skills in mediating the association between parent’s hazardous alcohol consumption and adolescents’ drinking

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Abstract

Background

This study aimed to investigate whether parental monitoring skills mediate the effect of hazardous parental alcohol consumption on adolescents’ lifetime alcohol use.

Methods

This three wave longitudinal study was conducted with 884 families (n = 1,768 participants) to evaluate the effectiveness of a family-based drug prevention program for adolescents and parents across 12 Brazilian cities. We used structural equation mediation modeling to analyze the effect of hazardous parental alcohol consumption at baseline on adolescents’ lifetime alcohol use at 12-month follow-up, mediated by parental monitoring skills latent dimension at 6-month follow-up.

Results

We found a significant indirect effect of parents’ hazardous alcohol use on adolescents’ alcohol use through parental monitoring (OR:1.18, 95%CI:1.02;1.36).

Conclusion

Our finding underscores the importance of comprehensive preventive family alcohol approaches targeting adolescent alcohol use, which should consider both parental drinking behavior and monitoring practices.

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Acknowledgements

We thank all the SARCs, field researchers, the MMFDH team, and especially the families who participated in the study.

Funding

The Ministry of Women, Family and Human Rights (MMFDH) supported this study through grant number TED 02/2020.

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  1. Department of Preventive Medicine, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), Rua Botucatu, 740 - Vila Clementino, São Paulo, SP, 04023-062, Brazil

    Juliana Y. Valente, Patricia Paiva de Oliveira Galvão, Miguel Henrique da Silva dos Santos & Zila M. Sanchez

  2. Department of Nursing, Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), Rua Alexandre Baraúna, 1115 - Rodolfo Te?filo, Fortaleza - CE, 60430-160, Brazil

    Fabiane A. Gubert

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Dra. Juliana Y. Valente conceptualized and designed the study, conducted the data analyses, and drafted the initial manuscript. Dra. Patricia Galvão, Msc. Miguel Henrique Santos, Dra. Fabiane Gurbert reviewed and revised the manuscript. Dra. Zila Sanchez is responsible for the grant acquisition and data collection and approved the final version of the manuscript. All authors approved the final version of the manuscript.

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Y. Valente, J., de Oliveira Galvão, P.P., da Silva dos Santos, M.H. et al. The role of monitoring skills in mediating the association between parent’s hazardous alcohol consumption and adolescents’ drinking. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-024-02682-6

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