Estimating mental health impacts of alcohol’s harms from other drinkers: Using propensity scoring methods with national cross-sectional data from the U.S

摘要

Background & AimsAlcohol’s harms to others (AHTO) may cause substantial distress, particularly when harms are perpetrated by close others. One challenge to identifying causal impacts is that people harmed by drinkers differ in many ways from those not so harmed, so our aim was to assess mental health in relation to two serious types of AHTO, financial harm and assault by someone who had been drinking, using propensity score (PS) weighting to adjust for potentially confounding differences.