Women and Alcohol in Gothenburg (WAG): Interviews
type: Dataset
description: The study Women and Alcohol in Gothenburg (WAG) is a longitudinal study that started in 1986. WAG has data from four interview waves, 1989-1992, 1994-1998, 2000-2002, and 2013-14. The first three waves comprise data from 2421 interviews, including 1432 baseline interviews and 989 follow-up interviews. At the first data collection, 399 women participated in a personal interview, representing a response rate of 83%. The oldest women in the project were born in 1925, and the youngest in 1993. WAG is designed as a two stage study. In the first step, specific female birth cohorts included in the study population for the first time and registered in central and western districts of Gothenburg, received a 13-item alcohol problem screening questionnaire called Women Screening and Alcohol (SWAG). In the second step, women were selected for a structured interview by stratified sampling according to their scores in the SWAG questionnaire. This two-step way enables the group of women with alcohol problems to be greater than in a random sampling. Each wave of data collection consist of baseline interviews birth cohorts included for the first time, as well as follow-up interviews with earlier baseline cohorts. The structured interview questionnaire mainly comprises issues of alcohol habits and mental health, including psychiatric disorders. The questionnaire further covers topics such as women’s working life and family situation, socioeconomic background factors, legal and illegal drug use, past experience from childhood and adolescence and sexual abuse and physical violence during child- and adulthood. Psychiatric diagnoses have been established by clinician interviewers according to the International Classification of Disease (ICD), DSM-III-R and DSM-IV. In the third data collection between 2000 and 2002, the instrument called International Neuropsychiatric Interview (M.I.N.I) was included in the questionnaire and used for diagnostic purpose. Purpose: The primary aim of the pro…
citation: CreativeWork
  name: Östlund A, Hensing G, Sundh V, Spak F. Changes in some personality traits after recovery from alcohol dependence/abuse, anxiety and depression--results of a 5-year follow-up in a general population sample of women. Nord J Psychiatry. 2007;61(4):279-87.
citation: Hensing G, Spak F, Thundal KL, Ostlund A. Decreased risk of alcohol dependence and/or misuse in women with high self-assertiveness and leadership abilities. Alcohol Alcohol. 2003 May-Jun;38(3):232-8.
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creative work status: completed
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creator: Gunnel Hensing
  type: Person
  affiliation: University of Gothenburg
  family name: Hensing
  given name: Gunnel
creator: Fredrik Spak
  type: Person
  affiliation: University of Gothenburg
  family name: Spak
  given name: Fredrik
date modified: 2024-10-11
date published: 2014-05-09
keywords: HEALTH
keywords: Medical and Health Sciences
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keywords: Health Sciences
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keywords: Public Health, Global Health and Social Medicine
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  term code: 30311
keywords: Health Services
keywords: Cohort Studies
keywords: Psychiatry
keywords: Life Style
keywords: Longitudinal Studies
keywords: Prospective Studies
keywords: Population Surveillance
keywords: Socioeconomic Factors
keywords: Risk Factors
keywords: Women's Health
keywords: Women
keywords: Alcoholism
keywords: Alcohol Drinking
keywords: Alcohol-Related Disorders
keywords: Family
keywords: Public Health
keywords: Leisure Activities
keywords: Health
keywords: Substance-Related Disorders
keywords: Depression
keywords: Interpersonal Relations
keywords: Mental Health
keywords: Mass Screening
keywords: Sick Leave
keywords: Suicidal Ideation
keywords: Self Concept
keywords: Social Conditions
keywords: Social Class
keywords: Occupational Exposure
keywords: epidemiology
keywords: mental illness
publisher: University of Gothenburg
spatial coverage: Sweden
temporal coverage: 1989/2014
version: 1

University of Gothenburg
type: Organization
department: Department of Public Health and Community Medicine

HEALTH
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Health Services
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description: Services for the diagnosis and treatment of disease and the maintenance of health.
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Cohort Studies
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description: Studies in which subsets of a defined population are identified. These groups may or may not be exposed to factors hypothesized to influence the probability of the occurrence of a particular disease or other outcome. Cohorts are defined populations which, as a whole, are followed in an attempt to determine distinguishing subgroup characteristics.
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Psychiatry
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description: The medical science that deals with the origin, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders.
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Life Style
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description: Typical way of life or manner of living characteristic of an individual or group. (From APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 8th ed)
term code: D008019

Longitudinal Studies
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description: Studies in which variables relating to an individual or group of individuals are assessed over a period of time.
term code: D008137

Prospective Studies
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description: Observation of a population for a sufficient number of persons over a sufficient number of years to generate incidence or mortality rates subsequent to the selection of the study group.
term code: D011446

Population Surveillance
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description: Ongoing scrutiny of a population (general population, study population, target population, etc.), generally using methods distinguished by their practicability, uniformity, and frequently their rapidity, rather than by complete accuracy.
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Socioeconomic Factors
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description: Social and economic factors that characterize the individual or group within the social structure.
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Risk Factors
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description: An aspect of personal behavior or lifestyle, environmental exposure, inborn or inherited characteristic, which, based on epidemiological evidence, is known to be associated with a health-related condition considered important to prevent.
term code: D012307

Women's Health
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description: The concept covering the physical and mental conditions of women.
term code: D016387

Women
type: DefinedTerm
description: Human females as cultural, psychological, sociological, political, and economic entities.
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Alcoholism
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description: A primary, chronic disease with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development and manifestations. The disease is often progressive and fatal. It is characterized by impaired control over drinking, preoccupation with the drug alcohol, use of alcohol despite adverse consequences, and distortions in thinking, most notably denial. Each of these symptoms may be continuous or periodic. (Morse & Flavin for the Joint Commission of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence and the American Society of Addiction Medicine to Study the Definition and Criteria for the Diagnosis of Alcoholism: in JAMA 1992;268:1012-4)
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Alcohol Drinking
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description: Behaviors associated with the ingesting of ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, including social drinking.
term code: D000428

Alcohol-Related Disorders
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description: Disorders related to or resulting from abuse or misuse of alcohol.
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Family
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description: A social group consisting of parents or parent substitutes and children.
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Public Health
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description: Branch of medicine concerned with the prevention and control of disease and disability, and the promotion of physical and mental health of the population on the international, national, state, or municipal level.
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Leisure Activities
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description: Voluntary use of free time for activities outside the daily routine.
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Health
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description: The state of the organism when it functions optimally without evidence of disease.
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Substance-Related Disorders
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description: Disorders related to substance use or abuse.
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Depression
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description: Depressive states usually of moderate intensity in contrast with MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER present in neurotic and psychotic disorders.
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Interpersonal Relations
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description: The reciprocal interaction of two or more persons.
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Mental Health
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description: Emotional, psychological, and social well-being of an individual or group.
term code: D008603

Mass Screening
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description: Organized periodic procedures performed on large groups of people for the purpose of detecting disease.
term code: D008403

Sick Leave
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description: An absence from work permitted because of illness or the number of days per year for which an employer agrees to pay employees who are sick. (Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, 1981)
term code: D018582

Suicidal Ideation
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description: A risk factor for suicide attempts and completions, it is the most common of all suicidal behavior, but only a minority of ideators engage in overt self-harm.
term code: D059020

Self Concept
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description: Persons' view of themselves.
term code: D012649

Social Conditions
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description: The state of society as it exists or in flux. While it usually refers to society as a whole in a specified geographical or political region, it is applicable also to restricted strata of a society.
term code: D012924

Social Class
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description: A stratum of people with similar position and prestige; includes social stratification. Social class is measured by criteria such as education, occupation, and income.
term code: D012923

Occupational Exposure
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description: The exposure to potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological agents that occurs as a result of one's occupation.
term code: D016273

Sweden
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