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Zhang Y, Sloan FA. Depression, Alcohol Dependence and Abuse, and Drinking and Driving Behavior. J Behav Health. 2014;3(4):212-219doi: 10.5455/jbh.20141115011440.
Zhang, Y., & Sloan, F. A. (2014). Depression, Alcohol Dependence and Abuse, and Drinking and Driving Behavior. Journal of behavioral health, 3(4), 212-219. https://doi.org/10.5455/jbh.20141115011440
Zhang, Ye, and Sloan, Frank A. "Depression, Alcohol Dependence and Abuse, and Drinking and Driving Behavior." Journal of behavioral health vol. 3,4 (2014): 212-219. doi: https://doi.org/10.5455/jbh.20141115011440
Zhang Y, Sloan FA. Depression, Alcohol Dependence and Abuse, and Drinking and Driving Behavior. J Behav Health. 2014;3(4):212-219. doi: 10.5455/jbh.20141115011440. PMID: 26236541; PMCID: PMC4517611.
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J Behav Health. 2014;3(4):212-219. doi: 10.5455/jbh.20141115011440.

Depression, Alcohol Dependence and Abuse, and Drinking and Driving Behavior.

Journal of behavioral health

Ye Zhang, Frank A Sloan

Affiliations

  1. Duke University School of Nursing, 307 Trent Drive, DUMC 3322, Durham, NC 27710, Office: (919)-668-9976, Cell: (919)-995-2510.
  2. Department of Economics, 213 Social Sciences Building, Box 90097, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, .

PMID: 26236541 PMCID: PMC4517611 DOI: 10.5455/jbh.20141115011440

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Alcohol dependence/abuse and depression are positively related. Prior studies focused on relationships between drinking and driving and alcohol dependence/abuse, drinking and driving and problem drinking, or drinking and driving and depression separately. No study has addressed how depression is linked to drinking and driving through various underlying channels in the same study.

METHODS: This study investigated relationships between depression, alcohol dependence/abuse, and the number of self-reported drinking and driving episodes. We also explored underlying behavioral channels between depression and alcohol dependence/abuse and binge drinking, reducing drinking amounts when planning to drive, and use of designated drivers. Data on 1,634 drinkers came from a survey fielded in eight U.S. cities. We employed ordinary least squares regression (OLS) and path analysis to assess drinking and driving and underlying channels.

RESULTS: With OLS, being depressed increased the number of drinking and driving episodes during the past year by 0.572. This increase decreased to 0.411 episodes/year increase after adding socio-demographic characteristics and household income and lost statistical significance after controlling for alcohol dependence/abuse. The path analysis showed that depression is positively associated with drinking and driving, indirectly operating through not using a designated driver, but is not directly associated with drinking and driving. Alcohol dependence/abuse is directly associated with drinking and driving, and indirectly with drinking and driving through binge drinking.

CONCLUSION: Our results suggest that treatment should focus on helping individuals with depression to obtain assistance from others, such as obtaining a designated driver. Since self-control of drinking in anticipation of driving did not significantly reduce drinking and driving episodes, this study finds no empirical support for emphasizing improved self-control when the treatment objective is reducing drinking and driving frequency. While binge drinking is associated with drinking and driving, the more appropriate way to influence binge drinking is treating alcohol dependence/abuse rather than depression per se.

Keywords: alcohol dependence/abuse; binge drinking; depression; designated driver; drinking and driving; self-control

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