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• TITLE: Pattern of Alcohol Consumption in Registered Users of a Family Health Unit

  AUTHORS: Jerssika Karla Sobreira da Silva, Fernanda Jorge Guimarães, Jaqueline Galdino Albuquerque Perrelli, Zailde Carvalho dos Santos, Lorita Marlena Freitag Pagliuca

  KEYWORDS: Nursing, Alcoholism, Primary Health Care

  JOURNAL NAME: Health, Vol.6 No.11, May 14, 2014

  ABSTRACT: The alcohol abuse is associated with a wide range of social, health and legal problems to analyze the pattern of alcohol consumption of users of a Family Health Unit. A descriptive, cross-sectional study with a quantitative approach, conducted with 207 users of a Family Health Unit who responded the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test. Data were analyzed with the aid of the STATA/SE 12.0 software. To analyze the association of the variables, the chi-square and Fisher’s exact test were used. Of the participants, 40.6% presented abusive consumption of alcohol, which is strongly associated to the male sex, single, between 18 and 30 years of age, who have no religion and some sort of occupation. There was no relation with monthly income and education. Screening and prevention programs to alcohol abuse are important for the most vulnerable group in the primary health care.