Survey study, 2004
Does PMS severity predict how much alcohol college women drink?
PMS severity predicted weekday alcohol drinking but not weekend drinking. The link appears to exist before serious drinking problems develop.
What they did
193 college women at a large urban university completed questionnaires about PMS severity and how much they drank on weekdays and weekends during the past year.
What they found
PMS severity significantly predicted annual weekday alcohol consumption but did not predict weekend alcohol consumption.
What it means for you
PMS might be a risk factor for heavier weekday drinking in college women, which could help identify women at risk for drinking problems. Limitations include that the study was only at one university and asked women to remember their drinking from one year, so cannot prove PMS causes drinking. Results may apply only to college women early in their drinking careers.
193
college women studied
weekday
drinking predicted by PMS
one year
lookback period
About the study
- Original title
- Premenstrual symptomatology and alcohol consumption in college women
- Authors
- Perry BL, Miles D, Burruss K et al.
- Journal
- Journal of studies on alcohol
- Year
- 2004
- Study design
- Survey study
- Participants
- 193
- What was tested
- None
- Read the paper
- doi.org/10.15288/jsa.2004.65.464
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