How Adolescents and Parents See Their Moral Responsibilities With Regard to Adolescents Using Alcohol-A Deductive Secondary Analysis.
Mari A Mynttinen, Kaisa E Mishina, Mari K Kangasniemi
PMID 36251496WHAT IT FOUND
Adolescents and parents in Finland both saw parents as the main authority for adolescent alcohol use.
School nurses can use these views to make alcohol talks concrete.
Key findings
01Role responsibilities were discussed most often and liability responsibilities least often, in the same order by adolescents and parents.
02Both adolescents and parents said parents are the main authority for supervising and controlling adolescents.
03Parents described their capacity responsibilities as including intervening when an adolescent drank, which involved talking and listening.
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What it does not show
This was a secondary analysis of interviews collected for other questions, so the data were not targeted to responsibilities and no follow-up questions could be asked. The analysis used a fixed theory-based structure, so it may have missed views that did not fit the chosen categories. Minor differences in tone may have affected interpretation because the researchers could not ask for more detail. Participants came from culturally and sociodemographically similar groups in a small area of Finland, so the findings may not transfer to other settings.
Declared interests
Funded by Juho Vainion Säätiö and Turun Yliopisto. The authors declared no conflicts of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that school nurse discussions or parental monitoring prevent adolescent alcohol use. The study only describes what adolescents and parents said about responsibility, and it did not test an intervention or outcome.