Acute alcohol consumption and injury: risk associations and attributable fractions for different injury mechanismsHervé Kuendig
Department of Public Health Sciences, Division of International Health, Karolinska Institutet, Nobels väg 9, SE 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 69:218-26. 2008
..Most studies on alcohol as a risk factor for injuries have been mechanism specific, and few have considered several mechanisms simultaneously or reported alcohol-attributable fractions (AAFs)-which was the aim of the current study...
Alcohol and nonlethal injuries: a Swiss emergency department study on the risk relationship between acute alcohol consumption and type of injuryHervé Kuendig
Department of Public Health Sciences, Division of International Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
J Trauma 65:203-11. 2008
..The present study aims to improve the knowledge of the importance of alcohol consumption as an injury determinant with regards to two dimensions of the type of injury, namely the nature and the body region involved...
Alcohol-related adverse consequences: cross-cultural variations in attribution process among young adultsHervé Kuendig
Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems, Lausanne, Switzerland
Eur J Public Health 18:386-91. 2008
..It also considers differences across consequences that might explain which type of consequences (mainly acute or mainly chronic) are most affected by an attribution process...
- Beyond drinking: differential effects of demographic and socioeconomic factors on alcohol-related adverse consequences across European countries
Hervé Kuendig
Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems, Lausanne, Switzerland
Eur Addict Res 14:150-60. 2008
..Using data from seven European countries, this study assesses the association between demographic and socioeconomic characteristics and six adverse consequences...
- Alcohol and cannabis use as risk factors for injury--a case-crossover analysis in a Swiss hospital emergency department
Gerhard Gmel
Alcohol Treatment Center, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
BMC Public Health 9:40. 2009
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- Gender and cultural differences in the association between family roles, social stratification, and alcohol use: a European cross-cultural analysis
Sandra Kuntsche
Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems, Lausanne, Switzerland
Alcohol Alcohol Suppl 41:i37-46. 2006
..Second, it seeks to explain country differences in the associations of social stratification and family roles with alcohol consumption by societal level variables...
- Pleasures of drinking: a cross-cultural perspective
Karin Helmersson Bergmark
Department of Sociology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
J Ethn Subst Abuse 7:131-53. 2008
..In all countries, men reported on expectancies more often than women. Regression model results are variable and not directly interpretable into cultural patterns, across countries and continents...
- Measuring alcohol consumption--should the 'graduated frequency' approach become the norm in survey research?
Gerhard Gmel
Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems, Lausanne, Switzerland
Addiction 101:16-30. 2006
..To analyse whether recommendations for the graduated frequency (GF) approach to measure alcohol consumption are justified in a multi-cultural comparative study...
- Solitary versus social drinking: an experimental study on effects of social exposures on in situ alcohol consumption
Hervé Kuendig
Addiction Info Switzerland, Lausanne, Switzerland
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 36:732-8. 2012
..e., in situ alcohol consumption, the quantity of alcohol actually ingested in given occasion, e.g., in grams)...
- Family bonding and adolescent alcohol use: moderating effect of living with excessive drinking parents
Hervé Kuendig
Research Department, Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems, SIPA, PO Box 870, 1001 Lausanne, Switzerland
Alcohol Alcohol 41:464-71. 2006
..The aim of the present study was to determine if the perception of parental drinking moderates the relationship between family bonding and adolescent alcohol use...
- What is worse? A hierarchy of family-related risk factors predicting alcohol use in adolescence
Emmanuel N Kuntsche
Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems SIPA, Research Department, Lausanne, Switzerland
Subst Use Misuse 41:71-86. 2006
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- Do Objective Measures of Blood Alcohol Concentrations Make More Sense than Self-reports in Emergency Department Studies?
Gerhard Gmel
From the Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems, Lausanne, Switzerland
J Addict Med 2:96-102. 2008
..Concerns about self-reports have led to calls for objective measures of blood alcohol concentration (BAC). The present study compared objective measures with self-reports...
- Beyond self-reports: drinking motives predict grams of consumed alcohol in wine-tasting sessions
Emmanuel Kuntsche
Addiction Info Switzerland, Lausanne, Switzerland
Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 20:318-24. 2012
..However, if the setting is unusual (first tasting session), situational characteristics may "overrule" the effect of personal motives...
- Alcohol dependence figures in the swiss general population: a sisyphean challenge for epidemiologists
Hervé Kuendig
Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems, Lausanne, Switzerland
Eur Addict Res 16:185-92. 2010
..As none of the methodologies developed for this purpose has proven to possess higher validity over others, this study follows the idea of methodological triangulation and compares estimates to assess their convergence...
- Do school surroundings matter? Alcohol outlet density, perception of adolescent drinking in public, and adolescent alcohol use
Emmanuel N Kuntsche
Research Department, Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems, P O Box 870, 1001 Lausanne, Switzerland
Addict Behav 30:151-8. 2005
..More research is needed, particularly in Europe and among adolescent populations, to reach a better understanding of school level predictors of adolescent alcohol use...
