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

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 effec...

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Published in:Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 2024-08, Vol.59 (8), p.1461-1465
Main Authors: Y. Valente, Juliana, de Oliveira Galvão, Patricia Paiva, da Silva dos Santos, Miguel Henrique, Gubert, Fabiane A., Sanchez, Zila M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Age
Alcohol use
Behavior
Brief Report
Children & youth
Data collection
Drinking
Epidemiology
Families & family life
Longitudinal studies
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Monitoring
Parents
Parents & parenting
Prevention programs
Psychiatry
Questionnaires
Skills
Teenagers
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0933-7954
1433-9285
1433-9285
DOI:10.1007/s00127-024-02682-6