Reaching the hard-to-reach: A probability sampling method for assessing prevalence of driving under the influence after drinking in alcohol outlets

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Boni, Raquel De ^a   Silva, Pedro Luis do ^b   Bastos, Francisco Inácio ^c,e   Pechansky, Flavio ^a   de Vasconcellos, Mauricio Teixeira Leite ^b,d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b National School of Statistics   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^d Funda??o Oswaldo Cruz   (Brazil)

^e BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL OUTLET; ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CALIBRATION; CAR DRIVING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MALE; PLACE PREFERENCE; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY SAMPLE; SEX; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRATIFICATION; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SAMPLING STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859725575     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034104     Document Type: Article

References (58)

1. WHO, (2011) Global status report on alcohol and health. Geneva.
2. DATASUS, (2008) Estatisticas de mortalidade. www.datasus.gov.br: Ministerio da Saude.
3. de Carvalho Ponce J, Muñoz DR, Andreuccetti G, de Carvalho DG, Leyton V, (2011) Alcohol-related traffic accidents with fatal outcomes in the city of Sao Paulo. Accid Anal Prev 43: 782-787.
4. Modelli M, Pratesi R, Tauil P, (2008) Alcoolemia em vítimas fatais de acidentes de trânsito no Distrito Federal, Brasil. Cadernos de Saúde Pública 42: 350-52.
5. Babor T, Caetano R, Casswell S, Edwards G, Giesbrecht N, et al. (2003) Alcohol: no ordinary commodity. Oxford Oxford University Press.
6. Shults R, Elder R, Sleet D, Nichols J, Alao M, et al. (2001) Reviews of evidence regarding interventions to reduce alcohol-impaired driving. Am J Prev Med 21: 66-88.
7. Caetano R, Laranjeira R, (2006) A 'perfect storm' in developing countries: economic growth and the alcohol industry. Addiction 101: 149-152.
8. Laranjeira R, Hinkly D, (2002) Evaluation of alcohol outlet density and its relation with violence. Rev Saude Publica 36: 455-461.
9. Popova S, Giesbrecht N, Bekmuradov D, Patra J, (2009) Hours and days of sale and density of alcohol outlets: impacts on alcohol consumption and damage: a systematic review. Alcohol Alcohol 44: 500-516.
10. Campbell C, Hahn R, Elder R, Brewer R, Chattopadhyay S, et al. (2009) The effectiveness of limiting alcohol outlet density as a means of reducing excessive alcohol consumption and alcohol-related harms. Am J Prev Med 37: 556-569.
11. Gruenewald PJ, Johnson FW, Treno AJ, (2002) Outlets, drinking an driving: a multilevel analysis of availability. J Stud Alcohol 63: 460-468.
12. Gruenewald P, Johnson F, (2010) Drinking, driving, and crashing: a traffic-flow model of alcohol-related motor vehicle accidents. J Stud Alcohol Drugs 71: 237-248.
13. Livingston M, Chikritzhs T, Room R, (2007) Changing the density of alcohol outlets to reduce alcohol-related problems. Drug Alcohol Rev 26: 557-566.
14. Scribner R, MacKinnon D, Dwyer J, (1994) Alcohol outlet density and motor vehicle crashes in Los Angeles County cities. J Stud Alcohol 55: 447-453.
15. Truong K, Sturm R, (2009) Alcohol environments and disparities in exposure associated with adolescent drinking in California. Am J Public Health 99: 264-270.
16. Treno A, Grube J, Martin S, (2003) Alcohol availability as a predictor of youth drinking and driving: a hierarchical analysis of survey and archival data. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 27: 835-840.
17. Meliker J, Maio R, Zimmerman M, Kim H, Smith S, et al. (2004) Spatial analysis of alcohol-related motor vehicle crash injuries in southeastern Michigan. Accid Anal Prev 36: 1129-1135.
18. van Oers J, Garretsen H, (1993) The geographic relationship between alcohol use, bars, liquor shops and traffic injuries in Rotterdam. J Stud Alcohol 54: 739-744.
19. Gruenewald P, Remer L, Lipton R, (2002) Evaluating the alcohol environment: community geography and alcohol problems. Alcohol Res Health 26: 42-48.
20. Colon I, (1982) The influence of state monopoly of alcohol distribution and the frequency of package stores on single motor vehicle fatalities. Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse 9: 325-331.
21. Voas RB, Furr-Holden D, Lauer E, Bright K, Johnson MB, et al. (2006) Portal surveys of time-out drinking locations: a tool for studying binge drinking and AOD use. Eval Rev 30: 44-65.
22. Miller BA, Holder HD, Voas RB, (2009) Environmental Strategies for Prevention of Drug Use and Risks in Clubs. J Subst Use 14: 19-38.
23. Siliquini R, Piat SC, Alonso F, Druart A, Kedzia M, et al. (2010) A European study on alcohol and drug use among young drivers: the TEND by Night study design and methodology. BMC Public Health 10: 205.
24. Goodman L, (1961) Snowball sampling. Ann Math Stat 32: 148-170.
25. Heckathorn D, (1997) Respondent-Driven Sampling: A New Approach to the Study of Hidden Populations. Social Problems 44: 174-199.
26. Thompson S, Collins L, (2002) Adaptive sampling in research on risk-related behaviors. Drug Alcohol Depend 68 (Suppl 1): S57-67.
27. Goel S, Salganik MJ, (2010) Assessing respondent-driven sampling. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107: 6743-6747.
28. Valente T, (2010) Social networks and health:models, methods and applications. New York Oxford Press.
29. MacKellar D, Valleroy L, Karon J, Lemp G, Janssen R, (1996) The Young Men's Survey: methods for estimating HIV seroprevalence and risk factors among young men who have sex with men. Public Health Rep 111 (Suppl 1): 138-144.
30. Muhib FB, Lin LS, Stueve A, Miller RL, Ford WL, et al. (2001) A venue-based method for sampling hard-to-reach populations. Public Health Rep 116 (Suppl 1): 216-222.
31. Stueve A, O'Donnell LN, Duran R, San Doval A, Blome J, (2001) Time-space sampling in minority communities: results with young Latino men who have sex with men. Am J Public Health 91: 922-926.
32. Parsons JT, Grov C, Kelly BC, (2008) Comparing the effectiveness of two forms of time-space sampling to identify club drug using young adults. J Drug Issues 38: 1061-1081.
33. Cochran W, (1977) Sampling techniques. New York Wiley&sons.
34. Haldane J, (1945) On a method of estimating frequencies. Biometrika 33: 222-225.
35. de Boni R, Vasconcellos MTLV, Bastos FI, Pechansky F, (2010) Alcohol Availability and DUI in a driver probabilistic sample from Porto Alegre, southern Brazil: preliminary findings. Abstract book ICADTS T2010 conference; Oslo.
36. de Boni R, Bozzetti MC, Hilgert J, Sousa T, von Diemen L, et al. (2011) Factors associated with alcohol and drug use among traffic crash victims in southern Brazil. Accid Anal Prev in press.
37. Duailibi S, Pinsky I, Laranjeira R, (2007) Prevalência do beber e dirigir em Diadema, estado de Sâo Paulo. Revista de Saúde Pública 41: 1058.
38. de Boni R, Leukefeld C, Pechansky F, (2008) Young people's blood alcohol concentration and the alcohol consumption city law, Brazil. Rev Saude Publica 42: 1101-1104.
39. Chou S, Dawson D, Stinson F, Huang B, Pickering R, et al. (2006) The prevalence of drinking and driving in the United States, 2001-2002: results from the national epidemiological survey on alcohol and related conditions. Drug Alcohol Depend 83: 137-146.
40. Allen J, Litten R, Fertig J, Babor T, (1997) A review of research on the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT). Alcohol Clin Exp Res 21: 613-619.
41. Mendéz E, (1999) Uma Versão Brasileira do AUDIT (Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test). Pelotas Universidade Federal de Pelotas.
42. Global Road Safety P, (2007) Assessing situation and choosing priority actions. Drinking and Driving a road safety manual for decision-makers and practitioners. Genebra: Sui‡a pp. 26-40.
43. Gibb KA, Yee AS, Johnston CC, Martin SD, Nowak RM, (1984) Accuracy and usefulness of a breath alcohol analyzer. AnnEmergMed 13: 516-520.
44. Razatos G, Luthi R, Kerrigan S, (2005) Evaluation of a portable evidential breath alcohol analyzer. Forensic Sci Int 153: 17-21.
45. Fernandes M, Protas J, Fernandes C, Goldim J, (2010) Ethical, legal and methodological aspects of research on the use of alcohol and drugs. Use of Alcohol and other drugs on Brazilian roads and other studies. Porto Alegre National Secretariat for Alcohol and drug Policies pp. 24-31.
46. Goldim JR, Fernandes MS, Pechansky F, (2011) Ethical, legal and social issues related to alcohol and drug research. Curr Opin Psychiatry 24: 181-185.
47. Särndal C, Swensson B, Wretman J, (1992) Model assisted survey sampling. New York Springer-Verlag.
48. Sudman S, Sirken MG, Cowan CD, (1988) Sampling rare and elusive populations. Science 240: 991-996.
49. Wells BE, Kelly BC, Golub SA, Grov C, Parsons JT, (2010) Patterns of alcohol consumption and sexual behavior among young adults in nightclubs. Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse 36: 39-45.
50. Lomba L, Apóstolo J, Mendes F, (2009) Drugs and alcohol consumption and sexual behaviours in night recreational settings in Portugal. Adicciones 21: 309-325.
51. Calafat A, Blay N, Juan M, Adrover D, Bellis MA, et al. (2009) Traffic risk behaviors at nightlife: drinking, taking drugs, driving, and use of public transport by young people. Traffic Inj Prev 10: 162-169.
52. Furr-Holden D, Voas RB, Kelley-Baker T, Miller B, (2006) Drug and alcohol-impaired driving among electronic music dance event attendees. Drug Alcohol Depend 85: 83-86.
53. Bellis MA, Hughes K, Quigg Z, Morleo M, Jarman I, et al. (2010) Cross-sectional measures and modelled estimates of blood alcohol levels in UK nightlife and their relationships with drinking behaviours and observed signs of inebriation. Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy 5: 5.
54. Hingson R, Winter M, (2003) Epidemiology and consequences of drinking and driving. Alcohol ResHealth 27: 63-78.
55. Zador P, Krawchuk S, Voas R, (2000) Alcohol-related relative risk of driver fatalities and driver involvement in fatal crashes in relation to driver age and gender: an update using 1996 data. J Stud Alcohol 61: 387-395.
56. Pechansky F, de Boni R, Diemen LV, Bumaguin D, Pinsky I, et al. (2009) Highly reported prevalence of drinking and driving in Brazil: data from the first representative household study. Rev Bras Psiquiatr 31: 125-130.
57. Laranjeira R, Pinsky I, Sanches M, Zaleski M, Caetano R, (2010) Alcohol use patterns among Brazilian adults. Rev Bras Psiquiatr 32: 231-241.
58. Lumley T, (2010) Complex surveys: a guide to analysis using R. New York: John Wiley & sons.