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https://doi.org/10.48188/hczz.1.1.7
Increase in alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 lockdown: Truth or false?
Davorka Sutlović
orcid.org/0000-0002-9899-5119
; Sveučilište u Splitu, Sveučilišni odjel zdravstvenih studija, Split, Hrvatska; Katedra za toksikologiju i farmakogenetiku, Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Splitu, Split, Hrvatska
Sanja Mandić
; Medicinski fakultet Osijek, Sveučilište J.J. Strossmayer u Osijeku - Zavod za medicinsku kemiju, biokemiju i kliničku kemiju, KBC, Osijek, Hrvatska
Nermina Korać
; Institut za medicinu rada Sarajevo, Laboratorij za toksikološke studije i sanitarno radno okruženje, Sarajevo, Bosna i Hercegovina
Marina Nestić
; Zavod za sudsku medicinu i kriminalistiku, Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Vesna Horvat
; Medicinski fakultet Osijek - Zavod za medicinsku kemiju, biokemiju i kliničku kemiju, KBC, Osijek, Hrvatska
Ivana Vapa
; Klinički centar Vojvodine, Novi Sad, Srbija
Vera Lukić
; Medicinski fakultet, Sveučilište u Beogradu, Institut za sudsku medicinu, Beograd, Srbija
Maja Vujović
; Zavod za farmaciju i toksikologiju, Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Nišu, Niš, Srbija
Marija Definis-Gojanović
; Zavod za patologiju, sudsku medicinu i citologiju, KBC Split, Split, Hrvatska; Katedra za sudsku medicinu, Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Splitu, Split, Hrvatska
Sažetak
Introduction: The lives of most people around the world have changed since the onset of SARS-CoV-2 pandemic (SARS-CoV - severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus). According to the WHO data, the first cases in Croatia were registered on February 26, in Bosnia and Herzegovina on March 5, and in Serbia on March 10, 2020. The assumption was that due to stress caused by imposed isolation, the alcohol consumption began to increase.
Methods: In order to obtain information on alcohol consumption in the period before and during Covid-19 lockdown, an online anonymous survey was conducted, in which a total of 930 persons participated: 542 from Croatia, 219 from Bosnia and Herzego-vina, and 169 from Serbia.
Results: Among those who completed the survey were 659 women and 271 men, mostly between 20-45 years old, with higher or secondary education. Most were employed, living in urban areas with a larger population. The obtained results did not show the influence of lockdown on alcohol consumption. On the contrary, 20.21% of participants, who had previously consumed alco-hol, answered that they stopped consuming during the lockdown. Only 0.43% of participants started consuming alcohol precisely because of isolation.
Conclusions: This research sheds new light on the daily practice of people during Covid-19 pandemic in the Western Balkans, known as a region where alcohol consumption is quite widespread.
Ključne riječi
alcohol consumption; COVID-19, lockdown
Hrčak ID:
257814
URI
Datum izdavanja:
28.4.2021.
Posjeta: 1.215 *