Rowe, R. orcid.org/0000-0001-5556-3650 (2023) The irony of drinking to health and happiness. The Lancet Psychiatry. ISSN 2215-0366
Abstract
In testing the relationship between alcohol consumption in young people and depression in young adulthood, in The Lancet Psychiatry, Gemma Hammerton and colleagues 1 address a very important question. Depression causes an enormous public health burden. WHO identifies depression as affecting more than 4% of the world's population and causing substantial disability. 2 Understanding how modifiable risk factors, such as alcohol consumption, influence the onset of depression in adulthood is therefore a crucial question for epidemiology to tackle. The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) is a highly appropriate data resource to use to address this question. ALSPAC is well placed in the UK's catalogue of large birth cohort studies, sitting between the 1970 British Cohort Study and the Millennium Cohort Study, uniquely assessing the development of children born in the 1990s. I was involved in a systematic review of available evidence on the adult outcomes of late adolescent alcohol consumption, 3 which concluded that the area needed more high-quality prospective cohort studies, and Hammerton and colleagues' work strongly contributes to this need.
Metadata
Item Type: | Article |
---|---|
Authors/Creators: | |
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 Elsevier. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in The Lancet Psychiatry. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. Article available under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
Dates: |
|
Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Psychology (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 05 Jun 2023 10:03 |
Last Modified: | 01 Dec 2023 01:13 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier BV |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/s2215-0366(23)00185-2 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:199885 |