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Alcohol consumption under lockdown measures during the COVID-19 pandemic in three Nordic countries
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- Gunnerlind, Oscar (author)
- Umeå universitet,Psykiatri
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- Lundqvist, Robert (author)
- Umeå universitet,Institutionen för folkhälsa och klinisk medicin
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- Ott, Michael (author)
- Umeå universitet,Avdelningen för medicin
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- Werneke, Ursula (author)
- Umeå universitet,Psykiatri
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- Sage Publications, 2024
- 2024
- English.
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In: International Journal of Social Psychiatry. - : Sage Publications. - 0020-7640 .- 1741-2854. ; 70:1, s. 48-58
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Abstract
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- Background: At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, concerns arose about a possible rise in alcohol consumption. Early surveys, however, more commonly pointed towards a decrease of alcohol use. But studies based on self-reports may underestimate alcohol use. They also depend on the population sampled. Because of border closures and gastronomy restrictions, countries with centralised alcohol sales provided a unique opportunity to study total domestic consumption during the pandemic without influence of private import or reliance on self-reports.Aims: We examined the correlation between alcohol sales and national COVID-19 restrictions in three such countries, Finland, Norway and Sweden.Method: We conducted this study as a mirror image study, comparing alcohol sales during the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic with the two preceding years. We explored hours of daylight/season as potential confounders.Results: We found no relevant change in alcohol sales during the pandemic years for Finland or Sweden. For Norway, there was a level-change in sales, which could be explained by decreased imports. Sales followed a seasonal pattern. In all three countries, the initial pandemic increase in alcohol sales coincided with an underlying annually recurring seasonal variation.Conclusions: The COVID-19 pandemic had less of an impact on alcohol consumption in the three Nordic countries than could intuitively be expected. The increase of alcohol sales at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic coincided with a seasonal rise following a pre-pandemic pattern. Therefore, caution should be exercised with drawing conclusions from data with a short time perspective to avoid attribution bias.
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- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap -- Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences -- Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- alcohol
- COVID-19
- Nordic countries
- pandemic
- seasonal
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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