Do Dimensional Measures of Mental Health Symptoms Predict Level of Alcohol Involvement in the General Population?

Haywood, D; Pantaleo, A; Mullan, BA; Heslop, KR; Baughman, FD

Do Dimensional Measures of Mental Health Symptoms Predict Level of Alcohol Involvement in the General Population?

Haywood, D

Pantaleo, A Mullan, BA Heslop, KR Baughman, FD

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Subst Use Misuse, 2023, 58, (5), pp. 629-636
Issue Date:: 2023

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dc.contributor.author	Haywood, D https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9317-4135
dc.contributor.author	Pantaleo, A
dc.contributor.author	Mullan, BA
dc.contributor.author	Heslop, KR
dc.contributor.author	Baughman, FD
dc.date.accessioned	2024-01-11T01:25:13Z
dc.date.available	2024-01-11T01:25:13Z
dc.date.issued	2023
dc.identifier.citation	Subst Use Misuse, 2023, 58, (5), pp. 629-636
dc.identifier.issn	1082-6084
dc.identifier.issn	1532-2491
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/174266
dc.description.abstract	Background: There is a limited understanding of what specific mental health symptoms are associated to alcohol involvement. It is important to understand how the severity of different mental health dimensions may differ, and distinguish between, levels of alcohol involvement. Objectives: (a) explore for differences in severity of mental health symptoms between those with lower, and moderate/high alcohol involvement, (b) assess the degree to which mental health dimensions can distinguish between those with lower, and moderate/high alcohol involvement, and (c) examine what mental health dimensions are related to the highest risk of moderate/high alcohol involvement. Results: 400 participants representative of the general population in the USA were recruited online through Prolific and completed the Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test and Brief Symptom Inventory. Each of the nine mental health symptom dimensions significantly differed between lower and moderate/high alcohol involvement, with the moderate/high alcohol involvement group reporting greater severity symptoms. The nine symptom dimensions in combination also significantly distinguished lower and moderate/high alcohol involvement, however only somatization offered unique predictive utility. Lastly, global distress was also able to significantly distinguish the alcohol involvement groups, albeit to a lesser accuracy compared to the collection of individual symptom dimensions. Conclusions: These findings suggest that overall mental health distress may be important to understanding alcohol involvement, however individual symptom dimensions can add further explanatory variance. In particular, somatic symptoms may offer unique utility in understanding the relationship between mental health and alcohol involvement.
dc.format	Print-Electronic
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
dc.relation.ispartof	Subst Use Misuse
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1080/10826084.2023.2177962
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.subject	1117 Public Health and Health Services, 1701 Psychology
dc.subject.classification	Substance Abuse
dc.subject.classification	4206 Public health
dc.subject.classification	5201 Applied and developmental psychology
dc.subject.classification	5203 Clinical and health psychology
dc.subject.mesh	Humans
dc.subject.mesh	Mental Health
dc.subject.mesh	Mental Disorders
dc.subject.mesh	Smoking
dc.subject.mesh	Humans
dc.subject.mesh	Smoking
dc.subject.mesh	Mental Health
dc.subject.mesh	Mental Disorders
dc.subject.mesh	Humans
dc.subject.mesh	Mental Health
dc.subject.mesh	Mental Disorders
dc.subject.mesh	Smoking
dc.title	Do Dimensional Measures of Mental Health Symptoms Predict Level of Alcohol Involvement in the General Population?
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	58
utslib.location.activity	England
utslib.for	1117 Public Health and Health Services
utslib.for	1701 Psychology
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Health
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dc.date.updated	2024-01-11T01:25:11Z
pubs.issue	5
pubs.publication-status	Published
pubs.volume	58
utslib.citation.issue	5

Abstract:

Background: There is a limited understanding of what specific mental health symptoms are associated to alcohol involvement. It is important to understand how the severity of different mental health dimensions may differ, and distinguish between, levels of alcohol involvement. Objectives: (a) explore for differences in severity of mental health symptoms between those with lower, and moderate/high alcohol involvement, (b) assess the degree to which mental health dimensions can distinguish between those with lower, and moderate/high alcohol involvement, and (c) examine what mental health dimensions are related to the highest risk of moderate/high alcohol involvement. Results: 400 participants representative of the general population in the USA were recruited online through Prolific and completed the Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test and Brief Symptom Inventory. Each of the nine mental health symptom dimensions significantly differed between lower and moderate/high alcohol involvement, with the moderate/high alcohol involvement group reporting greater severity symptoms. The nine symptom dimensions in combination also significantly distinguished lower and moderate/high alcohol involvement, however only somatization offered unique predictive utility. Lastly, global distress was also able to significantly distinguish the alcohol involvement groups, albeit to a lesser accuracy compared to the collection of individual symptom dimensions. Conclusions: These findings suggest that overall mental health distress may be important to understanding alcohol involvement, however individual symptom dimensions can add further explanatory variance. In particular, somatic symptoms may offer unique utility in understanding the relationship between mental health and alcohol involvement.

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