Consumption and drinking frequency of alcoholic beverage among women in Ghana: a cross-sectional study

BMC Public Health

Samuel Twumasi Amoah¹  Anthony Mwinilanaa Tampah-Naah¹ 

[1] Department of Environment and Resource Studies, University for Development Studies, Wa Campus, Wa, Ghana

关键词: Ghana;    Women;    Alcoholic beverage;    Drinking frequency;    Consumption;   

Others  :  1170950
DOI  :  10.1186/s12889-015-1651-3

 received in 2014-09-10, accepted in 2015-03-18,  发布年份 2015

【 摘 要 】

Background

The consumption and drinking frequency of alcoholic beverage are identified with various individual factors. The aim of this study was to identify background characteristics of women associated with the consumption and drinking frequency of alcoholic beverage.

Methods

Data was extracted from the 2008 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey. The data consisted of women’s (aged 15–49 years) background characteristics and their reported history of consumption and drinking frequency of alcoholic beverage. A weighted sample size of 4916 women was used in the present study. Binary logistic regression and multinomial logistic regression were applied to examine the independent association between the covariates and the consumption and drinking frequency of alcoholic beverage respectively.

Results

Out of the 4916 women that were included in the study, 17.5% consumed alcoholic beverage in the past week. Factors that were found to be associated with women who consumed alcoholic beverage in a binary logistic regression model were age (15–19 years up to 45–49 years), region (Central, Greater Accra, Volta, Ashanti, Northern, Upper East, and Upper West), ethnicity (Ga or Dangme, Mole-Dagbani, Grussi, Gruma or Mande), wealth quintile (middle), and employment status [past 12 months] (those employed). In the multinomial logistic regression model, drinking frequency of alcoholic beverage was associated with women in the Central (none), Greater Accra Region (none and 4 or more times), Eastern (none and 2–3 times), Brong Ahafo (none), Upper East (none), those who attained primary education (4 or more times), Ga/Dangme ethnic group (none), those of middle wealth quintile (none), and those employed (4 or more times).

Conclusions

In the country, about 2 in 10 women consume alcoholic beverage and the drinking frequency of alcoholic beverage varied among women in the country. Hence, the maintenance of moderate alcoholic beverage consumption among women, where applicable, should be encouraged.

【 授权许可】

   
2015 Tampah-Naah and Amoah; licensee BioMed Central.

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