Alcohol use as a predictor of child-to-parent violence in adolescents from southern Mexico.
Pedro Moisés Noh-Moo, Lubia Del Carmen Castillo-Arcos, Juan Yovani Telumbre-Terrero and 3 others
PMID 39101810WHAT IT FOUND
In 318 Mexican adolescents, alcohol use was associated with verbal and economic violence toward mothers and with physical, verbal and economic violence toward fathers, but not physical violence toward mothers.
This is an association, not proof alcohol caused violence.
Key findings
01Alcohol use was positively associated with child-to-parent violence toward mothers and fathers, except physical violence toward mothers.
02AUDIT score predicted verbal and economic violence toward mothers, while age and AUDIT score predicted physical, verbal and economic violence toward fathers.
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What it does not show
The sample was a convenience sample from one public high school in southern Mexico, so it may not represent all adolescents. The study measured alcohol use and violence at the same time, so it cannot show that alcohol use caused violence. The alcohol use and violence measures were self-reported by adolescents. The origin of adolescents within southern Mexico was not identified, so regional representation is limited. Physical violence toward mothers was not significantly associated with alcohol use, and the regression model for physical violence toward mothers was not significant. This was an observational survey, not a test of a nursing intervention.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that alcohol use caused child-to-parent violence. The study is cross-sectional and only shows associations, and physical violence toward mothers was not significantly related to alcohol use.