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First Program for Research on Family History of Alcoholism Impact on Alcohol Consumption

This program displayed 3 frequency table in two value which are the number of subjects involved and the percentage of the subjects involved. The frequency table displayed are drinking status, blood or natural father ever an alcoholic or problem drinker and blood or natural mother ever an alcoholic or problem drinker. Percentage will be used as the evaluation of value as it better shows the share of subjects in each frequency table.

From the frequency table we can see 65.53 % of subjects are current drinkers and 18.85% of subjects have blood/natural father which is or was an alcoholic or problem drinker while 5.36% of the subjects have blood/natural mother who is or was so. These are the information are important for the research topic. From all this data any direct relationship for the research topic could not be established as the frequency tables only show the percentage of subject without relating them. There are also values in the frequency table where the subjects answered have no answer or did not answer the questions, which are 5.85% and 2.85% respectively for the question of blood/natural father and mother which is or was an alcoholic or problem drinker.

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Family History of Alcoholism Impact on Alcohol Consumption

While looking through the codebook of the NESARC study, there are one particular topic that I am interested in which is the family history of alcoholism. What caught my interest in the topic was the possible association between the alcohol consumption. Does someone from a family having member/members with alcoholism issue will consume alcohol? That is the question which i was wondering when I am going through the NESARC study.

Studies related to alcoholism had been going on for decades with various topics to choose from. 2 out of 5 alcohol drinkers came from a family with a positive history of alcoholism (Dawson, Harford & Grant, 1992), and increased odds by 86% if first degree relatives with alcoholism. While having behavioral inhibition of alcoholism and having an adolescence with poor family management increases risk for alcohol abuse and dependence (Hill, Hawkins, Bailey, Catalano, Abbot & Shapiro, 2010). A family with strong alcoholism history shows significant effect on later generation in terms heritability of alcoholism (Chartier, Thomas & Kendler, 2017). These studies impose that being in a family with members suffering from alcoholism, have a probability to consume alcohol, further enhance my hypothesis where people from a family with alcoholism has high probability of drinking themself.

Dawson, D. A., Harford, T. C., & Grant, B. F. (1992). Family history as a predictor of alcohol dependence. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 16(3), 572-575.

Hill, K. G., Hawkins, J. D., Bailey, J. A., Catalano, R. F., Abbott, R. D., & Shapiro, V. B. (2010). Person–environment interaction in the prediction of alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence in adulthood. Drug and alcohol dependence, 110(1-2), 62-69.

Chartier, K. G., Thomas, N. S., & Kendler, K. S. (2017). Interrelationship between family history of alcoholism and generational status in the prediction of alcohol dependence in US Hispanics. Psychological medicine, 47(1), 137-147.