Gerhard Gmel

Summary

Affiliation: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois
Country: Switzerland

Publications

  1. ncbi [Alcohol-related injuries--an emergency department study in the Lausanne University Hospital]
    Gerhard Gmel
    Centre de traitement en alcoologie, CHUV, 1011 Lausanne
    Rev Med Suisse 3:1964-7. 2007
  2. ncbi Effectiveness of a brief integrative multiple substance use intervention among young men with and without booster sessions
    Gerhard Gmel
    Alcohol Treatment Centre, Lausanne University Hospital CHUV, Mont Paisible 16, CH 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
    J Subst Abuse Treat 44:231-40. 2013
  3. ncbi Brief alcohol intervention as pragmatic intervention: who is voluntarily taking an offered intervention?
    Gerhard Gmel
    Alcohol Treatment Centre, Lausanne University Hospital CHUV, Mont Paisible 16, CH 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
    Alcohol 46:551-8. 2012
  4. ncbi Injury and repeated injury - what is the link with acute consumption, binge drinking and chronic heavy alcohol use?
    Gerhard Gmel
    Alchol Treatment Centre, Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland
    Swiss Med Wkly 137:642-8. 2007
  5. ncbi Challenging the "inoffensiveness" of regular cannabis use by its associations with other current risky substance use--a census of 20-year-old Swiss men
    Gerhard Gmel
    Alcohol Treatment Centre, Lausanne University Hospital CHUV, Mont Paisible 16, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
    Int J Environ Res Public Health 7:46-59. 2010
  6. ncbi Recall bias for seven-day recall measurement of alcohol consumption among emergency department patients: implications for case-crossover designs
    Gerhard Gmel
    Alcohol Treatment Center, Lausanne University Hospital, CH 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
    J Stud Alcohol Drugs 68:303-10. 2007
  7. ncbi Who drinks most of the total alcohol in young men--risky single occasion drinking as normative behaviour
    Gerhard Gmel
    Alcohol Treatment Center, Lausanne University Hospital CHUV, CH 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
    Alcohol Alcohol 43:692-7. 2008
  8. ncbi Risky single-occasion drinking: bingeing is not bingeing
    Gerhard Gmel
    Alcohol Treatment Center, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Addiction 106:1037-45. 2011
  9. ncbi Brief alcohol intervention and alcohol assessment do not influence alcohol use in injured patients treated in the emergency department: a randomized controlled clinical trial
    Jean Bernard Daeppen
    Emergency Department, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Addiction 102:1224-33. 2007
  10. ncbi Is brief motivational intervention effective in reducing alcohol use among young men voluntarily receiving it? A randomized controlled trial
    Jacques Gaume
    Alcohol Treatment Centre, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Alcohol Clin Exp Res 35:1822-30. 2011

Detail Information

Publications89

  1. ncbi [Alcohol-related injuries--an emergency department study in the Lausanne University Hospital]
    Gerhard Gmel
    Centre de traitement en alcoologie, CHUV, 1011 Lausanne
    Rev Med Suisse 3:1964-7. 2007
    ..Leisure time related injuries were most likely to be alcohol attributable. Most of the alcohol-related injuries occurred at already small ethanol quantities ingested...
  2. ncbi Effectiveness of a brief integrative multiple substance use intervention among young men with and without booster sessions
    Gerhard Gmel
    Alcohol Treatment Centre, Lausanne University Hospital CHUV, Mont Paisible 16, CH 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
    J Subst Abuse Treat 44:231-40. 2013
    ..The usefulness of targeting multi-substances during BIs without prior screening depends on the value of small effects. The addition of booster sessions was not effective and therefore is not recommended...
  3. ncbi Brief alcohol intervention as pragmatic intervention: who is voluntarily taking an offered intervention?
    Gerhard Gmel
    Alcohol Treatment Centre, Lausanne University Hospital CHUV, Mont Paisible 16, CH 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
    Alcohol 46:551-8. 2012
    ..Lacking further modifications, real-world implementations of BAI for young men may be less effective than randomized controlled trials designed to test the efficacy of BAI...
  4. ncbi Injury and repeated injury - what is the link with acute consumption, binge drinking and chronic heavy alcohol use?
    Gerhard Gmel
    Alchol Treatment Centre, Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland
    Swiss Med Wkly 137:642-8. 2007
    ..First, to test whether current injury is more closely related to acute intake than to usual consumption patterns, and second, to test whether repeated injury is more closely related to general consumption patterns than to acute intake...
  5. ncbi Challenging the "inoffensiveness" of regular cannabis use by its associations with other current risky substance use--a census of 20-year-old Swiss men
    Gerhard Gmel
    Alcohol Treatment Centre, Lausanne University Hospital CHUV, Mont Paisible 16, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
    Int J Environ Res Public Health 7:46-59. 2010
    ..A pressing public health issue among cannabis users stems from risky licit substance use warranting preventive efforts within this age group...
  6. ncbi Recall bias for seven-day recall measurement of alcohol consumption among emergency department patients: implications for case-crossover designs
    Gerhard Gmel
    Alcohol Treatment Center, Lausanne University Hospital, CH 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
    J Stud Alcohol Drugs 68:303-10. 2007
    ..The purpose of this study was to estimate biases in recalling alcohol consumption over short periods...
  7. ncbi Who drinks most of the total alcohol in young men--risky single occasion drinking as normative behaviour
    Gerhard Gmel
    Alcohol Treatment Center, Lausanne University Hospital CHUV, CH 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
    Alcohol Alcohol 43:692-7. 2008
    ..The objectives of this study were to analyse (a) the distribution of risky single-occasion drinking (RSOD) among 19-year-old men in Switzerland and (b) to show the percentage of all alcohol consumption in the form of RSOD...
  8. ncbi Risky single-occasion drinking: bingeing is not bingeing
    Gerhard Gmel
    Alcohol Treatment Center, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Addiction 106:1037-45. 2011
    ..To review the concept of binge drinking as a measure of risky single occasion drinking (RSOD), to illustrate its differential impact on selected health outcomes and to identify research gaps...
  9. ncbi Brief alcohol intervention and alcohol assessment do not influence alcohol use in injured patients treated in the emergency department: a randomized controlled clinical trial
    Jean Bernard Daeppen
    Emergency Department, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Addiction 102:1224-33. 2007
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  10. ncbi Is brief motivational intervention effective in reducing alcohol use among young men voluntarily receiving it? A randomized controlled trial
    Jacques Gaume
    Alcohol Treatment Centre, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Alcohol Clin Exp Res 35:1822-30. 2011
    ..Brief motivational intervention (BMI) has shown promising results for young people, but has never been tested in young men in the community who volunteered to receive an intervention...
  11. ncbi 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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  12. ncbi 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...
  13. ncbi Measuring alcohol-related consequences in school surveys: alcohol-attributable consequences or consequences with students' alcohol attribution
    Gerhard Gmel
    Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems, P O Box 870, CH 1001 Lausanne, Switzerland
    Am J Epidemiol 171:93-104. 2010
    ..Therefore, the extent of alcohol-related adverse consequences among adolescents may be underestimated when using self-attributed consequences, because of differential attribution processes, especially among infrequent drinkers...
  14. ncbi Counsellor behaviours and patient language during brief motivational interventions: a sequential analysis of speech
    Jacques Gaume
    Alcohol Treatment Centre, Lausanne University Hospital, Mont Paisible, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Addiction 103:1793-800. 2008
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  15. ncbi Age of first alcohol intoxication: association with risky drinking and other substance use at the age of 20
    Angeline Adam
    Alcohol Treatment Centre, Department of Community Medicine and Health, Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland
    Swiss Med Wkly 141:w13226. 2011
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  16. ncbi Alcohol-related adverse consequences: cross-cultural variations in attribution process among young adults
    Hervé 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...
  17. ncbi At-risk drinking and drug use among patients seeking care in an emergency department
    Elizabeth A Fleming
    Alcohol Treatment Centre, Lausanne University Hospital, Rue du Bugnon 46, 1001 Lausanne, Switzerland
    J Stud Alcohol Drugs 68:28-35. 2007
    ..This study reports the frequency of alcohol use and associated tobacco and drug use among emergency department (ED) patients, in order to increase physician awareness and treatment of women and men seeking care in ED settings...
  18. ncbi Spreading or concentrating drinking occasions--who is most at risk?
    Sandra Kuntsche
    Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Drug and Alcohol Problems, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Eur Addict Res 14:71-81. 2008
    ..b) To investigate whether these associations are cross-culturally stable...
  19. ncbi Alcohol-attributable injuries in admissions to a swiss emergency room--an analysis of the link between volume of drinking, drinking patterns, and preattendance drinking
    Gerhard Gmel
    Alcohol Treatment Center, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Alcohol Clin Exp Res 30:501-9. 2006
    ..This study explores which of 11 specified groups of drinkers (a) are at high risk and (b) contribute most to alcohol-attributable injuries...
  20. ncbi Disentangling gender and age effects on risky single occasion drinking during adolescence
    Emmanuel Kuntsche
    Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems SIPA, Research Department, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Eur J Public Health 16:670-5. 2006
    ..To determine the association between adolescent risky single occasion drinking (RSOD) and gender, age, and the relative age position of students within their class...
  21. ncbi 'I drink spirits to get drunk and block out my problems...' beverage preference, drinking motives and alcohol use in adolescence
    Emmanuel Kuntsche
    Research Department, Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems, PO Box 870, CH 1001 Lausanne, Switzerland
    Alcohol Alcohol 41:566-73. 2006
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  22. ncbi Counselor motivational interviewing skills and young adult change talk articulation during brief motivational interventions
    Jacques Gaume
    Alcohol Treatment Centre, Lausanne University Hospital, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
    J Subst Abuse Treat 39:272-81. 2010
    ..Additional analyses showed that among MICO behaviors, reflective listening may be a particularly powerful technique to elicit CT...
  23. ncbi Change talk sequence during brief motivational intervention, towards or away from drinking
    Nicolas Bertholet
    Alcohol Treatment Center, Department of Community Medicine and Health, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Addiction 105:2106-12. 2010
    ..To investigate whether different sequences of 'change talk' utterances within a brief motivational intervention (BMI) are associated with drinking outcomes...
  24. ncbi Efficacy of brief motivational intervention in reducing binge drinking in young men: A randomized controlled trial
    Jean Bernard Daeppen
    Alcohol Treatment Centre, Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland
    Drug Alcohol Depend 113:69-75. 2011
    ..We evaluated the efficacy of BMI in reducing alcohol use and related problems among binge drinkers and in maintaining low-risk drinking among non-bingers...
  25. ncbi Estimating regression to the mean and true effects of an intervention in a four-wave panel study
    Gerhard Gmel
    Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems, Research Department, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Addiction 103:32-41. 2008
    ..Secondly, as the relationship between baseline values and post-intervention changes is confounded with regression to the mean (RTM) effects, to apply different approaches for estimating the RTM effect and true change...
  26. ncbi Housewife or working mum--each to her own? The relevance of societal factors in the association between social roles and alcohol use among mothers in 16 industrialized countries
    Sandra Kuntsche
    Addiction Info Switzerland, Research Institute, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Addiction 106:1925-32. 2011
    ..To investigate whether differences in gender-income equity at country level explain national differences in the links between alcohol use, and the combination of motherhood and paid labour...
  27. ncbi Exploring daily variations of drinking in the Swiss general population. A growth curve analysis
    Jean Luc Heeb
    Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Other Drug Problems, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Int J Methods Psychiatr Res 17:1-11. 2008
    ..Prevention efforts which are targeted to this subgroup should take its specific drinking pattern into account...
  28. ncbi Communication during brief intervention, intention to change, and outcome
    Jean Bernard Daeppen
    Alcohol Treatment Center, Department of Community Medicine and Health, Lausanne University Hospital, Mont Paisible 16, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Subst Abus 28:43-51. 2007
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  29. ncbi Drinking motives as mediators of the link between alcohol expectancies and alcohol use among adolescents
    Emmanuel Kuntsche
    Research Department, Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems, Post Office Box 870, CH 1001, Lausanne, Switzerland
    J Stud Alcohol Drugs 68:76-85. 2007
    ..The purpose of this study was to test whether the link between alcohol expectancies and alcohol use (drinking frequency, usual quantity, five-plus drinking) is mediated by drinking motives...
  30. ncbi Measuring alcohol consumption: a comparison of graduated frequency, quantity frequency, and weekly recall diary methods in a general population survey
    Jean Luc Heeb
    Research Department, Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems SIPA, Avenue de Ruchonnet 12, P O Box 870, CH 1001 Lausanne, Switzerland
    Addict Behav 30:403-13. 2005
    ..Another objective is to examine the consumption means, ranking order, and drinking classifications and to relate differences in consumption means and classification inconsistencies to social and drinking characteristics...
  31. ncbi The role of drunken older siblings and drunken peers in the alcohol-violence nexus
    Emmanuel Kuntsche
    Research Department, Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems, CH 1001 Lausanne, Switzerland
    Eur J Public Health 19:394-9. 2009
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  32. ncbi Drinking at European universities? A review of students' alcohol use
    Matthias Wicki
    Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems SIPA, Research Department, PO Box 870, CH 1001 Lausanne, Switzerland
    Addict Behav 35:913-24. 2010
    ..The vast majority of these studies are based on US and Canadian samples...
  33. ncbi Brief alcohol interventions: do counsellors' and patients' communication characteristics predict change?
    Jacques Gaume
    Alcohol Treatment Centre, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Alcohol Alcohol 43:62-9. 2008
    ..To identify communication characteristics of patients and counsellors during brief alcohol intervention (BAI) which predict changes in alcohol consumption 12 months later...
  34. ncbi Counselor skill influences outcomes of brief motivational interventions
    Jacques Gaume
    Alcohol Treatment Centre, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
    J Subst Abuse Treat 37:151-9. 2009
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  35. ncbi The association between drinking motives and alcohol-related consequences - room for biases and measurement issues?
    Gerhard Gmel
    Addiction Info Switzerland, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Addiction 107:1580-9. 2012
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  36. ncbi A step beyond--the relevance of depressed mood and mastery in the interplay between the number of social roles and alcohol use
    Sandra Kuntsche
    Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems, Av Ruchonnet 14, P O B 870, CH 1001 Lausanne, Switzerland
    Addict Behav 35:1013-20. 2010
    ..The present study examines whether depressed mood and external control mediate or moderate the relationship between the number of social roles and alcohol use...
  37. ncbi Spreading interviews over time in health surveys: do temporal variations of self-reported alcohol consumption affect measurement?
    Jean Luc Heeb
    Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems SIPA, Avenue de Ruchonnet 14, CH 1001 Lausanne, Switzerland
    Subst Use Misuse 40:1015-33. 2005
    ..The investigations include temporal clustering effects, prediction of alcohol consumption and variations across days by characteristics of respondents and interviewing period, and sensitivity to variations of measurements instruments...
  38. ncbi Estimating uncertainty of alcohol-attributable fractions for infectious and chronic diseases
    Gerrit Gmel
    Centre for Addiction and Mental Health CAMH 33 Russell Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2S1, Canada
    BMC Med Res Methodol 11:48. 2011
    ..This paper presents a systematic method to compute the 95% confidence intervals of alcohol-attributable fractions (AAFs) with exposure and risk relations stemming from different sources...
  39. ncbi 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...
  40. ncbi Changes in adolescents' reasons for drinking in Switzerland and associations with alcohol use from 1994 to 2002
    Emmanuel Kuntsche
    Research Department, Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems, Lausanne, Switzerland
    J Adolesc Health 39:705-11. 2006
    ..To determine changes in the prevalence of reasons for drinking and their associations with alcohol use among adolescents in Switzerland from 1994 to 2002...
  41. ncbi Perception of the amount of drinking by others in a sample of 20-year-old men: the more I think you drink, the more I drink
    Nicolas Bertholet
    Department of Community Medicine and Health, Alcohol Treatment Center, Lausanne University Hospital, Mont Paisible 16, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
    Alcohol Alcohol 46:83-7. 2011
    ..The amount a person drinks can be influenced by their perception of drinking by others...
  42. ncbi Replication and validation of the Drinking Motive Questionnaire Revised (DMQ-R, Cooper, 1994) among adolescents in Switzerland
    Emmanuel Kuntsche
    Research Department, Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Eur Addict Res 12:161-8. 2006
    ..In sum, the results demonstrate the robustness of the DMQ-R and its usefulness for assessing drinking motives among European adolescents from different cultural backgrounds...
  43. ncbi 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...
  44. ncbi The smoking epidemic in Switzerland--an empirical examination of the theory of diffusion of innovations
    Sandra Kuntsche
    Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Soz Praventivmed 50:344-54. 2005
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  45. ncbi Hospital admission rates for alcoholic intoxication after policy changes in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland
    Matthias Wicki
    Research Institute of Addiction Info Switzerland, case postale 870, CH 1001 Lausanne, Switzerland
    Drug Alcohol Depend 118:209-15. 2011
    ..The aim of this study is to assess the impact of this policy change on hospital admission rates for alcoholic intoxication...
  46. ncbi Does change talk during brief motivational interventions with young men predict change in alcohol use?
    Jacques Gaume
    Alcohol Treatment Centre, Department of Community Medicine and Health, Lausanne University Hospital, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
    J Subst Abuse Treat 44:177-85. 2013
    ..The frequency and strength with which some CT sub-dimensions are expressed during BMI seemed to be important predictors of change in drinking among young men and might thus be especially important for clinicians to notice...
  47. ncbi Predictive value of readiness, importance, and confidence in ability to change drinking and smoking
    Nicolas Bertholet
    Department of Community Medicine and Health, Alcohol Treatment Center, Lausanne University Hospital, Beaumont 21b, p2, 02, Lausanne, 1011, Switzerland
    BMC Public Health 12:708. 2012
    ..2.) To determine the association of readiness, importance and confidence with alcohol (number of drinks/week, number of binge drinking episodes/month) and tobacco (number of cigarettes/day) use at six months...
  48. ncbi Changes in alcohol consumption following a reduction in the price of spirits: a natural experiment in Switzerland
    Jean Luc Heeb
    Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Other Drug Problems, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Addiction 98:1433-46. 2003
    ..To discover what changes in alcohol consumption had occurred in subgroups defined by age, sex, volume of drinking and drinking occasions, following a reduction in the price of spirits in Switzerland in July 1999...
  49. ncbi Emotional wellbeing and violence among social and solitary risky single occasion drinkers in adolescence
    Emmanuel N Kuntsche
    Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems SIPA, Research Department, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Addiction 99:331-9. 2004
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  50. ncbi Same wording, distinct concepts? Testing differences between expectancies and motives in a mediation model of alcohol outcomes
    Emmanuel Kuntsche
    Research Department, Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 18:436-44. 2010
    ..Consequently, the effectiveness of interventions, particularly those aimed at coping drinkers, should be improved through a shift in focus from expectancies to drinking motives...
  51. ncbi Sexual dysfunctions among young men: prevalence and associated factors
    Anaïs Mialon
    Research Group on Adolescent Health, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
    J Adolesc Health 51:25-31. 2012
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  52. ncbi Alcohol drinking and cardiovascular risk in a population with high mean alcohol consumption
    Maryline Foerster
    Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Am J Cardiol 103:361-8. 2009
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  53. ncbi Harmful alcohol use
    Gerhard Gmel
    Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Alcohol Res Health 27:52-62. 2003
    ..Use of better design and statistical methodology is necessary in order to clarify the relationship between drinking and the harmful consequences it is believed to cause...
  54. ncbi Beliefs about and attitudes toward gambling in French-speaking Switzerland
    Sophie Inglin
    Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems, Lausanne, Switzerland
    J Gambl Stud 27:299-316. 2011
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  55. ncbi Association of alcohol consumption to mortality and person-years of life lost in Switzerland--measuring the impact of some methodological options
    Elisabeth Gutjahr
    Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems SIPA, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Eur J Epidemiol 20:37-47. 2005
    ..The underlying question was: how many deaths and person-years of life lost would be avoided if all individuals were: (1) non-drinkers, (2) low drinkers only or (3) both (either abstainers or low level drinkers)?..
  56. ncbi 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...
  57. ncbi Parents' alcohol use: gender differences in the impact of household and family chores
    Sandra Kuntsche
    Addiction Info Switzerland, Research Institute, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Eur J Public Health 22:894-9. 2012
    ..e. full-time, part-time employment or unemployment, moderate the relationship between FRI and parental alcohol use?..
  58. ncbi How stable is the risk curve between alcohol and all-cause mortality and what factors influence the shape? A precision-weighted hierarchical meta-analysis
    Gerhard Gmel
    Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Eur J Epidemiol 18:631-42. 2003
    ..To determine the influence of six determining variables on the shape of the risk curve between alcohol and all-cause mortality...
  59. ncbi Revising the Cannabis Use Disorders Identification Test (CUDIT) by means of Item Response Theory
    Beatrice Annaheim
    Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Int J Methods Psychiatr Res 19:142-55. 2010
    ..However, improvements were limited to cannabis users with a high problem score. For epidemiological purposes, any further revision of CUDIT should therefore include a greater number of 'easier' items...
  60. ncbi Statistical modeling of volume of alcohol exposure for epidemiological studies of population health: the US example
    Jurgen Rehm
    Centre for Addiction and Mental Health CAMH, 33 Russell Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2S1, Canada
    Popul Health Metr 8:3. 2010
    ..As both sources have significant problems, this paper presents an approach that triangulates information from both sources into disaggregated estimates in line with the overall level of per capita consumption...
  61. ncbi A quasi-randomized group trial of a brief alcohol intervention on risky single occasion drinking among secondary school students
    Gerhard Gmel
    Research Department, Addiction Switzerland, Avenue de Ruchonnet 14, P O Box 870, 1001 Lausanne, Switzerland
    Int J Public Health 57:935-44. 2012
    ..To show the effectiveness of a brief group alcohol intervention. Aims of the intervention were to reduce the frequency of heavy drinking occasions, maximum number of drinks on an occasion and overall weekly consumption...
  62. ncbi Help the helper-addiction research and the helper syndrome
    Gerhard Gmel
    Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Addiction 99:154-5. 2004
  63. ncbi Who drinks and why? A review of socio-demographic, personality, and contextual issues behind the drinking motives in young people
    Emmanuel Kuntsche
    Research Department, Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems SIPA, PO Box 870, 1001 Lausanne, Switzerland
    Addict Behav 31:1844-57. 2006
    ..Findings on personality indicate that it would be useful to focus on extraverted, sensation-seeking boys who drink for enhancement motives and neurotic, anxious girls who drink for coping motives...
  64. ncbi Acute alcohol consumption and injury: risk associations and attributable fractions for different injury mechanisms
    Hervé 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...
  65. ncbi Why do young people drink? A review of drinking motives
    Emmanuel Kuntsche
    Research Department, Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems SIPA, PO Box 870, 1001 Lausanne, Switzerland
    Clin Psychol Rev 25:841-61. 2005
    ..Future studies should therefore use well-defined, theoretically based, homogenous instruments to disentangle cultural from measurement differences across surveys...
  66. ncbi Alcohol and nonlethal injuries: a Swiss emergency department study on the risk relationship between acute alcohol consumption and type of injury
    Hervé 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...
  67. ncbi Does price matter? The effect of decreased price on spirits consumption in Switzerland
    Meichun Kuo
    Addiction Research Institute, Zurich University, Switzerland
    Alcohol Clin Exp Res 27:720-5. 2003
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  68. ncbi Moderate alcohol consumption and the gastrointestinal tract
    Benjamin Taylor
    Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ont, Canada
    Dig Dis 23:170-6. 2005
    ..A high alcohol intake is significantly associated with diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, but less is known about the effects of moderate consumption, specifically moderate average volume of alcohol consumption...
  69. ncbi International comparisons of alcohol consumption
    Kim Bloomfield
    Department of Health Promotion Research, University of Southern Denmark, Esbjerg, Denmark
    Alcohol Res Health 27:95-109. 2003
    ..Some problems associated with international research, however, such as issues of comparability of surveys, still need to be resolved...
  70. ncbi Alcohol-related morbidity and mortality
    Jurgen Rehm
    Addiction Research Institute, Zurich, Switzerland
    Alcohol Res Health 27:39-51. 2003
    ..Broad summary measures that reflect alcohol's possible effects on morbidity, mortality, and disability may be more useful than measures of any one outcome alone...
  71. ncbi Problems with the graduated frequency approach to measuring alcohol consumption: results from a pilot study in Toronto, Canada
    Kathryn Graham
    Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, London, Ontario, Canada
    Alcohol Alcohol 39:455-62. 2004
    ..e. 12 or more drinks, at least eight drinks but less than 12, etc.)...
  72. ncbi Alcohol as a risk factor for global burden of disease
    Jurgen Rehm
    Addiction Research Institute, Zurich, Switzerland
    Eur Addict Res 9:157-64. 2003
    ..To make quantitative estimates of the burden of disease attributable to alcohol in the year 2000 on a global basis...
  73. ncbi The global distribution of average volume of alcohol consumption and patterns of drinking
    Jurgen Rehm
    Addiction Research Institute, Zurich, Switzerland
    Eur Addict Res 9:147-56. 2003
    ..To make quantitative estimates on a global basis of exposure of disease-relevant dimensions of alcohol consumption, i.e. average volume of alcohol consumption and patterns of drinking...
  74. ncbi The relationship of average volume of alcohol consumption and patterns of drinking to burden of disease: an overview
    Jurgen Rehm
    Addiction Research Institute, Zurich, Switzerland
    Addiction 98:1209-28. 2003
    ..AAFs were estimated as a function of prevalence of exposure and relative risk, or from combining the aggregate multi-level analyses with prevalence data...
  75. ncbi Alcohol consumption and total mortality/morbidity-definitions and methodological implications
    Jurgen Rehm
    Addiction Research Institute Zurich, Switzerland
    Best Pract Res Clin Gastroenterol 17:497-505. 2003
    ....
  76. ncbi [Changes in the age of onset of cannabis use: results of the 2nd Swiss Health Survey 1997]
    Sandra Muller
    Schweizerische Fachstelle für Alkohol und andere Drogenprobleme, Lausanne
    Soz Praventivmed 47:14-23. 2002
    ..Based on data from the second Swiss Health Survey conducted in 1997, the present study investigates changes in the onset of cannabis use and associated consequences...
  77. ncbi Decreased taxation, spirits consumption and alcohol-related problems in Switzerland
    Meichun Mohler-Kuo
    Addiction Research Institute ISF, Konradstrasse 32, Postfach 8031 Zürich, Switzerland
    J Stud Alcohol 65:266-73. 2004
    ..Further correlates of alcohol-related problems were also explored...
  78. ncbi Comments on Rossow & Romelsjo (2006). The prevention paradox
    Gerhard Gmel
    Addiction 101:295-6; author reply 296-7. 2006
  79. ncbi [Quitting hash. The readiness for behaviour change among cannabis users in Switzerland]
    Beatrice Annaheim
    Schweizerische Fachstelle für Alkohol und andere Drogenprobleme SFA, Lausanne
    Int J Public Health 52:233-41. 2007
    ..It is hypothesized that frequency of use, cannabis-related problems and age of onset are associated with their willingness to change...
  80. ncbi Bullying and fighting among adolescents--do drinking motives and alcohol use matter?
    Emmanuel Kuntsche
    Research Department, Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems, PO Box 870, 1001 Lausanne, Switzerland
    Addict Behav 32:3131-5. 2007
    ..To conclude, drinking motives have a bearing on other problem behaviors besides excessive drinking, and may be useful for early identification and intervention for students who are likely to experience a variety of problems...
  81. ncbi Surrogate alcohol: what do we know and where do we go?
    Dirk W Lachenmeier
    Chemisches und Veterinaruntersuchungsamt CVUA Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
    Alcohol Clin Exp Res 31:1613-24. 2007
    ..e., nonbeverage alcohols and illegally produced alcohols) was shown to impact on different causes of death, not only poisoning or liver disease, and appears to be a major public health problem in Russia and elsewhere...
  82. ncbi [Volume and profile of alcohol consumption among students and classmates as predictors of aggression and victimization: a multilevel analysis among Swiss adolescents]
    Jean Sebastien Fallu
    Institut de Recherche sur les Addictions, Zurich, Suisse
    Soz Praventivmed 51:363-72. 2006
    ..BJECTIVE: To test the effects of the volume of alcohol consumption and drinking patterns on alcohol-related aggression and victimization, both at the individual and class levels...
  83. ncbi Alcohol consumption and public health in Russia
    Jurgen Rehm
    Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada M51 2S1
    Lancet 369:1975-6. 2007
  84. ncbi Drinking patterns and their gender differences in Europe
    Pia Makela
    National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health STAKES, Alcohol and Drug Research Group, Helsinki, Finland
    Alcohol Alcohol Suppl 41:i8-18. 2006
    ..To compare drinking habits and to examine differences between drinking cultures in different regions and countries in Europe; to examine gender differences in drinking habits and to compare them over countries...
  85. ncbi Introduction to special issue 'Gender, Culture and Alcohol Problems: a Multi-national Study'
    Kim Bloomfield
    Unit of Health Promotion Research, University of Southern Denmark, Niels Bohrs Vej 9, 6700 Esbjerg, Denmark
    Alcohol Alcohol Suppl 41:i3-7. 2006
    ..In most analyses the smallest gender differences in drinking behaviour were found in Nordic countries, followed by western and central European countries, with the largest gender differences in countries with developing economies...
  86. ncbi Social inequalities in alcohol consumption and alcohol-related problems in the study countries of the EU concerted action 'Gender, Culture and Alcohol Problems: a Multi-national Study'
    Kim Bloomfield
    Unit for Health Promotion Research, University of Southern Denmark, Esbjerg
    Alcohol Alcohol Suppl 41:i26-36. 2006
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  87. ncbi Is alcopop consumption in Switzerland associated with riskier drinking patterns and more alcohol-related problems?
    Matthias Wicki
    Department of Psychology, University of Bern, Switzerland
    Addiction 101:522-33. 2006
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  88. ncbi The influence of societal level factors on men's and women's alcohol consumption and alcohol problems
    Giora Rahav
    Department of Sociology, Tel Aviv University
    Alcohol Alcohol Suppl 41:i47-55. 2006
    ..To identify the pattern of gender differences in drinking across societies, and to its association with other societal characteristics...
  89. ncbi Average volume of alcohol consumption, patterns of drinking and mortality among young Europeans in 1999
    Jurgen Rehm
    Addiction 97:105-9. 2002