{"id":8777,"date":"2020-08-06T11:36:04","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T18:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8777"},"modified":"2021-04-06T11:36:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T18:36:47","slug":"effect-of-covid-19-lockdown-on-alcohol-consumption-in-patients-with-pre-existing-alcohol-use-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/06\/effect-of-covid-19-lockdown-on-alcohol-consumption-in-patients-with-pre-existing-alcohol-use-disorder\/","title":{"rendered":"Effect of COVID-19 Lockdown on Alcohol Consumption in Patients with Pre-Existing Alcohol Use Disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Kim et al. conducted a\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">cross-sectional telephone survey among\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">patients<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">with<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0pre-existing alcohol disorders\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(n=182)\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in London 2 months after lockdown\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">started<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0in the UK<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0During lockdown, 43 (24%) reported an increase and 34 (19%) reported a decrease in their alcohol intake as assessed by AUDIT score. In a subset of 69 (38%) patients\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">who were<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0abstinent before lockdown, 12 (17%) relapsed during lockdown. Mean AUDIT score within the relapse group was 16 (SD 10), representing a 226% mean increase with a mean weekly consumption of 49 units (SD 63) during lockdown.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Kim et al. (Aug 4, 2020). Effect of COVID-19 Lockdown on Alcohol Consumption in Patients with Pre-Existing Alcohol Use Disorder. The Lancet Gastroenterology &amp; Hepatology.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S2468-1253(20)30251-X\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S2468-1253(20)30251-X<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim et al. conducted a\u00a0cross-sectional telephone survey among\u00a0patients\u00a0with\u00a0pre-existing alcohol disorders\u00a0(n=182)\u00a0in London 2 months after lockdown\u00a0started\u00a0in the UK.\u00a0During lockdown, 43 (24%) reported an increase and 34 (19%) reported a decrease in their alcohol intake as assessed by AUDIT score. In a subset of 69 (38%) patients\u00a0who were\u00a0abstinent before lockdown, 12 (17%) relapsed during lockdown. Mean AUDIT&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/06\/effect-of-covid-19-lockdown-on-alcohol-consumption-in-patients-with-pre-existing-alcohol-use-disorder\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[18],"class_list":["post-8777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-mental-health-and-personal-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8778,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8777\/revisions\/8778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8777"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}