Alcohol Exposures, Alcohol Marketing, and Their Associations with Problem Drinking and Drunkenness among Youth Living in the Slums of Kampala, Uganda

Table 2

Bivariate associations between demographic characteristics, alcohol marketing, and alcohol education, and problem drinking and drunkenness among participants in the Kampala Youth Survey (𝑁=457).

Variables	Current alcohol		Problem drinking		Drunkenness
	%	OR (95% CI)	%	OR (95% CI)	%	OR (95% CI)
Sex
Boys	39.01	1.83 (1.20–2.80)	31.21	1.95 (1.23–3.07)	33.57	2.00 (1.28–3.13)
Girls	25.88	1.00	18.91	1.00	20.19	1.00
Age
≥18	39.85	3.13 (2.00–4.91)	30.77	3.27 (1.96–5.44)	31.27	2.56 (1.59–4.12)
<18	17.19	1.00	11.98	1.00	15.10	1.00
Alcohol use and marketing exposure
0–4	13.92	1.00	11.39	1.00	10.13	1.00
5-6	33.43	3.49 (1.79–6.83)	24.93	2.58 (1.24–5.40)	27.22	3.70 (1.72–7.96)
Alcohol marketing
Free drink	64.46	8.33 (5.22–13.31)	52.07	7.85 (4.82–12.79)	53.78	7.18 (4.45–11.59)
Brand logo	60.68	6.34 (4.00–10.04)	49.57	6.36 (3.93–10.29)	51.30	5.91 (3.68–9.49)
Alcohol education
Danger of alcohol	30.02	0.97 (0.51–1.86)	22.14	0.79 (0.40–1.55)	23.69	0.78 (0.40–1.51)
Help quit	28.18	0.73 (0.47–1.13)	21.52	0.80 (0.49–1.29)	23.78	0.92 (0.57–1.48)
Refuse alcohol	26.84	0.55 (0.35–0.86)	20.94	0.68 (0.42–1.10)	22.26	0.65 (0.41–1.05)