GENDER DIFFERENCES IN THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND MENTAL HEALTH IN PATIENTS ATTENDING AN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT
Author(s) -
Rosa Alati,
Stuart A. Kinner,
Jake M. Najman,
Greg Fowler,
Kerrianne Watt,
David Green
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
alcohol and alcoholism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.747
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 1464-3502
pISSN - 0735-0414
DOI - 10.1093/alcalc/agh080
Subject(s) - anxiety , alcohol use disorders identification test , mental health , medicine , depression (economics) , psychiatry , hospital anxiety and depression scale , emergency department , cross sectional study , environmental health , poison control , injury prevention , pathology , economics , macroeconomics
There is evidence of a non-linear relationship between alcohol consumption and mental health status, and of an association between tobacco use and poor mental health. This paper examines the nature of the association between usual alcohol consumption, tobacco use and symptoms of anxiety and depression in Emergency Department patients in Queensland, Australia.
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