Drinking pattern, abstention and problem drinking as risk factors for depressive symptoms: evidence from three urban Eastern European populations.

Our findings are generally consistent with that study in that we found abstaining was not associated with greater odds of depressive symptoms in Russia when looking at drinking pattern (effect estimates indicated poorer mental health for abstaining Russians in both studies but these effects did not reach statistical significance) but in analyses of the association between annual drinking volume and depressive symptoms, Russians who abstained from alcohol actually had significantly increased odds of depression.

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