Almost half of young people hospitalised from alcohol consumption have been there before

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Australia; SA; WA

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46.4 per cent of young people hospitalised due to alcohol-related harm have been hospitalised for the same reason before, according to Aussie researchers. The team used WA hospital data dating back to the 1990s to estimate how common it was for young people aged 12 to 24 to find themselves back in the hospital more than once due to alcohol related harm. The researchers say just over one in five people hospitalised go on to be hospitalised again later, with people in this group more likely than the general population to have a mental disorder. They say people are at highest risk of an alcohol-related re-admission within the month of their previous hospitalisation, suggesting this period could be important for intervening.

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conference: Drug and Alcohol Review

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Organisation/s: Telethon Kids Institute, Curtin University, University of South Australia, The University of Western Australia

Funder: This research was supported by a Stewart Brightspark Raine Medical Research Foundation Priming Grant and we thank Jon and Caro Stewart, the Brightspark Foundation and the RaineMedical Research Foundation for their generous support. The authors wish to thank the staff at theWestern Australian Data Linkage Branch and the data custodians ofEmergencyDepartment data, HospitalMorbidity data, Mental Health contact data, Death Registrations and Child Protection data. The authors also acknowledge the people of Western Australia, whose data are being used for this project. GP was supported with funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council Project and Investigator Grants #1099655 and #1173991, institutional funding for the WA Health and Artificial Intelligence Consortium, and the Research Council of Norway through its Centres of Excellence funding scheme #262700. The views expressed are not necessarily those of theGovernmentDepartment that have provided data for this project.

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