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Table 2 Information collected at interview

From: Alcohol and premature death in Estonian men: a study of forensic autopsies using novel biomarkers and proxy informants

General information

Information recorded

Respondent

Age, date of birth, place of birth, nationality, marital status, number of children, education, profession, views about his/her area of residence;

The deceased and

his family at time of

death

Composition and structure of household, description of the home of the subject (number of rooms, amenities, properties), economic situation and income of the household, whether/when his parents had died;

Relationship of res-

pondent to deceased

Relationship to the subject, duration and capacity of knowing the subject (special reference of knowing him in the last year before his death);

Subject

Age, date of birth, place of birth, nationality, marital status, number of children, education, profession, the main reason for ceasing regular paid employment (if applicable);

History of serving in the army, serving in a zone of conflict, having been to prison;

 

Relations in the family, having close friends, being involved in physical fights during the last year, diseases and disabilities (special reference in the last year before his death), persistent large changes in the subject's circumstances and/or behaviour (diet, exercise, drinking, smoking) that have occurred because of ill health or disability;

 

Duration and pattern of smoking if applicable;

Questions regarding drinking of alcohol by the subject

Information recorded

Frequency and

amount of drinking

Frequency and days of week of drinking beer, wine, spirits, surrogates, homemade samogon, alcoholic coctails;

Usual and maximum amount of beer, wine, spirits, surrogates, homemade samogon, alcoholic coctails drunk on one occasion (special reference to drinking during the last year before his death);

Indication of

hazardous drinking

Drinking spirits together with either beer or wine at the same sitting, drinking large quantities of spirits without also eating some food at the same sitting, frequency of becoming excessively drunk/having hangover, drinking alcohol before noon, frequency of failing to fulfil his family or personal or work obligations due to drinking alcohol, going to sleep at night with his clothes on because of being drunk, drinking alone, frequency and duration of zapoi, being arrested because he was drunk, drinking surrogates;

Other alcohol

questions

Distance of get to the nearest place where one can buy beverages, being admitted to hospital/clinic because of alcohol poisoning, having had help or advice from a doctor, narcologist, social worker or some other professional for an alcohol problem, subject's father when the subject was growing up or anyone in the subject's household apart from him going on zapoi;

Surrogates

Main reason and time of start of drinking surrogates, drinking surrogates at home, types and amount of surrogates drunk, subject's father when the subject was growing up or anyone in the subject's household apart from him drinking surrogates;