Teenage drinking, alcohol availability and pricing: a cross-sectional study of risk and protective factors for alcohol-related harms in school children

Table 2 Relationships between types of alcohol products consumed, costs per unit of alcohol for each product type and percentage of children having experienced negative alcohol-related outcomes

	% consuming	Drink outside (streets, parks, shops)			Violence when drunk			Alcohol-related regretted sex			Tend to forget things after drinking			Price per unit of alcohol (£)
Drink product	drink type	%	OR	95% CIs	%	OR	95% CIs	%	OR	95% CIs	%	OR	95% CIs	n	Mean	95% CIs	Lowest
Alcopops	50.72	40.15	1.02	0.92-1.14	30.40	0.90	0.80-1.00	14.58	1.15	0.99-1.34	49.90	1.21	1.09-1.34	24	0.70	0.61-0.78	0.33
Beer cans or bottles	56.35	44.53	1.57	1.41-1.75	37.74	1.97	1.75-2.22	15.61	1.45	1.23-1.70	47.91	1.03	0.93-1.14	26	0.37	0.34-0.41	0.28
Wine	26.62	34.10	0.72	0.63-0.81	31.17	0.98	0.86-1.11	16.01	1.28	1.08-1.52	48.22	1.04	0.92-1.16	25	0.37	0.34-0.40	0.23
Spirits	48.43	48.63	2.05	1.84-2.28	41.35	2.47	2.20-2.77	18.28	2.16	1.84-2.54	54.21	1.68	1.51-1.87	29	0.33	0.30-0.35	0.21
Cider cans or bottles	22.11	49.81	1.69	1.49-1.91	37.90	1.44	1.27-1.64	17.02	1.39	1.17-1.66	51.01	1.19	1.05-1.35	23	0.28	0.24-0.31	0.15
Large value cider bottles	12.71	71.56	4.62	3.91-5.47	50.48	2.53	2.16-2.96	24.02	2.27	1.87-2.75	60.79	1.85	1.58-2.16	22	0.17	0.16-0.19	0.11
P (correlation)^$		<0.01			<0.01			<0.01			<0.05			<0.001^#

^$P relates to correlation between percentage experiencing each negative alcohol-related outcome by drink type and mean price per unit of alcohol by drink type. Correlations use Spearman's _{(one tailed)} tests to examine the hypothesis that consumption of lower priced drinks are related to greater percentages of consumers experiencing harms. Odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs) measure the relative increase in odds of having experienced each negative alcohol-related outcome associated with being a consumer of each drink product. As individuals often were consumers of more that one drink product the same individual can appear in the analysis of more than one drink product type. ^#Differences between prices of each product utilises ANOVA.

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