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Impact of Alcohol Consumption on Use of Health Care Resources

NCT02343874 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 1911771

Last updated 2015-01-22

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The prevalence of alcohol-related disorders in the general population is around 10%. The relationship between the use of healthcare services, costs and the amount of alcohol consumed by the general population is unknown. Because alcoholism is a major public health problem, it is significant to determine the prevalence of consumption of primary users and the relationship between the dose of alcohol and health care costs. This information may allow the implementation of preventive strategies to reduce consumption with the aim to reduce morbidity and healthcare expenditure.

A cross-sectional study will be carried out. Patients over 17 years old, treated at primary healthcare centers in Catalonia that have available data on alcohol consumption from January 2010 to December 2012 will be included. Clinical and sociodemographic data will be collected. Health service use and health care costs from 2013 will be collected from SIDIAP (The Information System for the Development of Research in Primary Care) database.

A positive relationship between grams of alcohol consumed per week and the use of resources and health expenditure will be expected and also the level of risk of alcohol consumption. There will be a descriptive analysis of the clinical data and sociodemographic variables. A multivariate analysis will be done to see the relationship between alcohol consumption and health care costs and health care service utilization.

Conditions

  • Alcohol Consumption

Interventions

OTHER

No intervention

No intervention will be done. The exposure of interest in this study is alcohol consumption in patients attended in primary health.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Institut Catala de Salut

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Institut Català de la Salut

    collaborator OTHER

  • Public Health Agency of Barcelona

    collaborator OTHER

  • Lundbeck Foundation

    collaborator OTHER

  • Hospital Clinic of Barcelona

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Antoni Gual, PhD · Institut d'investigacions Biomèdiques Agust Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS)

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-12-31
Primary Completion
2012-12-31
Completion
2013-12-31

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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