Literature Review

Abstract and Citation

My research topic was alcohol use in adolescents. The article’s title is “Adolescent alcohol use and parental and adolescent socioeconomic position in six European cities.”  The article’s title helped me identify that the article pertained to my research topic. The article’s title showed that this article would discuss adolescent alcohol use in six European countries.

The abstract summarized the main portions of the article. It has been divided into four sections: Background, methodology, results, conclusions, and the keywords in the article. The abstract revealed that risky behaviors in adolescents have a social pattern (Bosque-Prous et al., 2017). The abstract also included the age group of the study participants. The methods section revealed a cross-sectional study with 8705 participants from five European nations. This section has also described the dependent and independent variables.  The abstract section briefly summarized the study results, which gave an overview of the prevalence of alcohol use in adolescents. The conclusion section revealed that alcohol use was associated with the adolescent’s socioeconomic position and not the parents’ (Bosque-Prous et al., 2017).

Research Question

The research problem in this article is easy to identify. The research problem is a high rate of alcohol consumption among adolescents. Alcohol consumption is one of the top five risk factors for disease, morbidity, and mortality globally (Kendagor et al., 2018). Adolescents have a high rate of alcohol consumption due to risky behaviors. The risky behaviors in adolescents have a social pattern, with many studies linking adolescent alcohol consumption with socioeconomic position. Higher alcohol consumption was linked with higher adolescent income (Bosque-Prous et al., 2017). The research problem was presented with early statements in the literature review section.

The research question was to determine the link between adolescent alcohol use and adolescent socioeconomic position and parental socioeconomic position among adolescents aged fourteen to seventeen years (Bosque-Prous et al., 2017). It also aimed to analyze which socioeconomic position has a stronger link with adolescent drinking. Furthermore, it aimed to explore whether the links varied according to age group, gender, and country. This article is relevant to my research question. My research question was to determine the rate of alcohol use in adolescents. The article aims to determine alcohol use vis-à-vis gender, age, country of origin, and socioeconomic position.

Source

This article is a primary source of information. It provides a raw source of evidence from the research. The article researched six European countries to determine the association between socioeconomic position and adolescent alcohol consumption. The information and results from this study were first-hand since it conducted original research.

References

The article has forty-eight references.  The articles are relevant to my research topic. The articles in the reference section talk about the different factors associated with alcohol consumption among adolescents, such as age, socioeconomic position, gender, and the health effects of alcohol.

Content

The base perspective of this article is from the researcher’s point of view. The authors are epidemiologists and researchers who aim to discover the socioeconomic position of adolescents and parental socioeconomic position with alcohol consumption in adolescents. This article is well organized. The information and language are professional and scientific. The articles have been organized into different sections, making them easy to comprehend and understand.  The different sections of the article are abstract, background, methods, results, discussion, conclusion, author details, conflict of interest, and references. The abstract section provided a summary of the article. The background section provided a literature review, while the methods section described the study design, sample size selection, data collection, and data analysis. The result section describes the study results, while the discussion section analyzes the study results. The conclusion section concluded the main articles of the study while references provided all the sources of information used in the article.

Study Findings

The study findings are trustworthy. From the start of the article, the language and organization have been professional. The article exhaustively described the methodology for obtaining the results. The data analysis has been described well, which makes the results trustworthy.  The study results suggest a need for further research utilizing longitudinal data to identify the causative mechanisms driving the link between alcohol use and the weekly income of students and academic performance.  Apart from that, the research on the socioeconomic position in adolescent alcohol use should include measures of adolescent socioeconomic position since they appear to be more predictive of adolescent drinking than parental socioeconomic position indicators. The study shows that diminished alcohol accessibility and availability in adolescents should be reinforced by implementing stringent alcohol policies, including implementing higher controls on alcohol selling and higher alcohol taxes, among other policies.

References

Bosque-Prous, M., Kuipers, M. A., Espelt, A., Richter, M., Rimpelä, A., Perelman, J., Federico, B., Brugal, M. T., Lorant, V., & Kunst, A. E. (2017). Adolescent alcohol use and parental and adolescent socioeconomic position in six European cities. BMC Public Health, 17(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4635-7

Kendagor, A., Gathecha, G., Ntakuka, M. W., Nyakundi, P., Gathere, S., Kiptui, D., Abubakar, H., Ombiro, O., Juma, P., & Ngaruiya, C. (2018). Prevalence and determinants of heavy episodic drinking among adults in Kenya: Analysis of the stepwise survey, 2015. BMC Public Health, 18(S3). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-6057-6

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Literature to read to answer the questions:

Literature Review

Alcohol use in adolescents
Bosque-Prous, M., Kuipers, M. A. G., Espelt, A., Richter, M., Rimpelä, A., Perelman, J., … Kunst, A. E. (2017). Adolescent alcohol use and parental and adolescent socioeconomic position in six European cities. BMC Public Health, 17(1), 646.

To complete this Assignment, write a 2- to 4-page paper answering the following questions:

Abstract and Citation:
Did the title assist in identifying whether the article would pertain to your research topic? Why?
Does the abstract clearly summarize the main features of the article? How?

Research Question:
Is the research problem easy to identify? Summarize the research problem.
What is the specific research question being asked?
Is the article relevant to the research question you developed? Why or why not?

Source:
Was the article a primary or secondary source?

References:
How many references does it include?
Are the references relevant and current for your research topic? Why or why not?

Content:
What is the base perspective of the article? In other words, is it from the point of view of an administrator, health care provider, health care deliverer, politician, researcher, or educator?
Is the article well-organized and sufficiently detailed for critical analysis? Provide an example.
Describe the various sections of the article. Does it follow the standard research process method? Why or why not?
Study Findings
Do the study findings appear to be trustworthy? Why or why not?
Does the article provide suggestions for additional research? Please explain.