Pico Case Study

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Pico question
How does alcohol consumption in young adults leads to depression?

Components of Pico
P- young adults
I- alcohol consumption
C- no alcohol consumption
O- depression

Exposure:
The exposure in this case is alcohol. It is injurious to health and it makes aggressive behavior of people therefore, increasing the level of anxiety. Excessive alcohol intake can interfere with the normal process of development and it is mostly appear in adolescence moreover, it leads serious issue for brain development sometimes, they lost their body control and taken their own life after drinking alcohol(Barrell 2000)

OUTCOME:
Drinking alcohol at hazardous level may cause depression among youth people. Alcohol significantly worsen the symptoms of depression …show more content…

1995). Recent epidemiological findings have shown that young adults who consume alcohol at daily basis are at the higher level depression as compared to adults who don’t drink. However, there is very little research in examining the social and psychological characteristics of non alcoholic young adults. The sample being choose for this study was of 2404 young adults (aged 20-24) living in the Canberra region, According to recent studies, higher level of depression psychological distress and anxiety was examined in both non-drinkers and hazardous/harmful drinkers as compared to moderate drinkers (Lipton 1994: Lyons et al.1995: Peele &Brodsky 2000). Overall, this research study has lead alcohol use disorder and heavy consumption with poor mental health (Caldwell et al., …show more content…

1996). Weekly alcohol consumption being categorized was different for men and women. For men, it was considered as light (1-13 units), moderate (14-27 units), hazardous (28-42 units) or harmful (>42 units). For women it was considered as light (1-7 units), moderate (8-13 units), hazardous (14-28) units or harmful (>28 units). To measure mental health symptoms, Goldberg’s depression and anxiety scales (Goldberg et al. 1988) and the positive and negative affect schedule (PANAS) (Caldwell et al., 2002) were

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