Y-DiD: Youth Drinking in Decline
The Youth Drinking In Decline (Y-DID) project aimed to provide the most detailed analysis to date of the nature and drivers of recent reductions in alcohol use among 11-24 year-olds in England.
Introduction
Alcohol consumption has fallen sharply among young people in the UK and we don't know why. Despite comparable trends across Europe, North America and Australia, we know little about this transformation in youth behaviour or what factors are driving it.
In particular, we know little about which young people are drinking less, whether youth drinking is concentrating within particular high-risk groups, whether new inequalities are emerging and how all of this relates to wider changes in youth culture.
The Youth Drinking In Decline (Y-DID) project was a four-year Wellcome Trust-funded collaboration between two research teams at the University of Sheffield: the Sheffield Alcohol Research Group and the Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth. It aimed to provide the most detailed analysis to date of the nature and drivers of recent reductions in alcohol use among 11-24 year-olds in England.
The project was divided into two primary work packages which are described below. These were brought together in a third integrative work package to produce mixed-method findings.
Work Packages
Research team
Professor John Holmes
Dr Laura Fenton
Dr Abi Stevely
Key project information
This project is funded by Wellcome.
Dates
April 2018 – March 2023
Funding
£607,801
Principal investigator
John Holmes, University of Sheffield
Institutions involved
University of Sheffield
Key contact
Media coverage
Publications
Dunphy J, Vieira E, Stevely AK, Livingston M, Vashishtha R, Rivelin K, & Holmes J (2024) Have declines in the prevalence of young adult drinking in English-speaking high-income countries followed declines in youth drinking? A systematic review Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09687637.2024.2335989
Dunphy J, Vieira E, Stevely AK, Livingston M, Vashishtha R, Rivelin K, & Holmes J (2024) Have declines in the prevalence of young adult drinking in English-speaking high-income countries followed declines in youth drinking? A systematic review Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09687637.2024.2335989
Stevely AK, Gray LA, Fairbrother H, Fenton L, Henney M, Holmes J (2023) A latent class analysis of change and continuity in adolescent health and wellbeing in England during the decline in youth alcohol consumption: a repeat cross-sectional study Preventive Medicine Reports DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2023.102481
Fenton L, Fairbrother H, Whitaker V, Henney M, Stevely AK, Holmes J (2023) Geographies of alcohol and generation: Examining the decline in youth drinking in England through a spatial lens Drug and Alcohol Review DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.13710
Fenton L, Fairbrother H, Whitaker V, Henney M, Stevely A, Holmes J (2023) 'When I came to university, that's when the real shift came': alcohol and belonging in English higher education during a decline in youth drinking Journal of Youth Studies DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2023.2190013
Whitaker V, Curtis P, Fairbrother H, Oldham M, Holmes J (2023) Young people's explanations for the decline in youth drinking in England BMC Public Health DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-14760-y
Whitaker V, Curtis P, Fairbrother H, Oldham M, Holmes J (2023) Young people's explanations for the decline in youth drinking in England BMC Public Health DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-14760-y
Pennay A, Törrönen, Dich Herold M, Fenton L, MacLean S, Caluzzi G, Fairbrother H, Frank VA, Samuelsson E, Holmes J (2022) There's a lot of stereotypes going on": A cross-national qualitative analysis of the place of gender in declining youth drinking International Journal of Drug Policy DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2022.103827
Stevely A, Vashishtha R, Fairbrother H, Fenton L, Henney M, Livingston M, Holmes J (2022) Are changes in attitudes towards school associated with declining youth drinking? A multi-level analysis of 37 countries European Journal of Public Health DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckac029
Holmes J, Fairbrother H, Livingstone M, Meier P, Oldham M, Pennay A, Whitaker V (2022) Youth drinking in decline: What are the implications for public health, public policy and public debate? Addiction DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2022.103606
Raninen J, Livingston M, Holmes J, Svensson J, Larm P (2021) Declining youth drinking – A matter of faith Drug & Alcohol Review DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.13411
Oldham M, Callinan S, Whitaker V, Fairbrother H, Curtis P, Meier P, Livingston M, Holmes J (2019) The decline in youth drinking in England – is everyone drinking less? A quantile regression analysis Addiction DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/add.14824
Kraus L, Room R, Livingston M, Pennay A, Holmes J, Törrönen J (2019) Long waves of consumption or a unique social generation? Exploring recent declines in youth drinking Addiction Research & Theory DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/16066359.2019.1629426
Oldham M, Holmes J, Whitaker V, Fairbrother H, Curtis P (2018) Youth Drinking in Decline Sheffield: ScHARR, University of Sheffield https://doi.org/10.15131/shef.data.7178333
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