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Alcohol and depression: Evidence from the 2014 health survey for England

Overview of attention for article published in Drug & Alcohol Dependence, September 2017
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Title
Alcohol and depression: Evidence from the 2014 health survey for England
Published in
Drug & Alcohol Dependence, September 2017
DOI 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2017.08.006
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Authors

S. Awaworyi Churchill, L. Farrell

Abstract

A relatively large body of literature examines the association between depression and alcohol consumption, with evidence suggesting a bidirectional causal relationship. However, the endogeneity arising from this reverse causation has not been addressed in the literature. Using data on 5828 respondents from the Health Survey for England (HSE), this study revisits the relationship between alcohol and depression and addresses the endogenous nature of this relationship. We use information on self-assessed depression, and control for endogeneity using the Lewbel two-staged least square (2SLS) estimation technique. We find that drinking alcohol promotes depression, and this is consistent across several measures of drinking behaviour including the amount of alcohol consumed, consumption intensity, alcohol dependence and risk of dependence. While drinking may be generally accepted and in the case of England, part of the culture, this has costs in terms of both physical and mental health that ought not to be ignored. While public policy has predominantly focused on the physical aspects of excessive alcohol consumption it is possible that these policies will also have a direct positive spillover in terms of the mental health costs, through the impact of lower alcohol consumption on quality of life and wellbeing.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 155 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 36 23%
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 12%
Student > Master 15 10%
Student > Postgraduate 14 9%
Researcher 13 8%
Other 13 8%
Unknown 45 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 32 21%
Medicine and Dentistry 18 12%
Nursing and Health Professions 17 11%
Social Sciences 12 8%
Neuroscience 6 4%
Other 21 14%
Unknown 49 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 27. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 January 2022.
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#1,421,475
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Outputs from Drug & Alcohol Dependence
#724
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#27,954
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Outputs of similar age from Drug & Alcohol Dependence
#19
of 139 outputs
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