Percepção de risco, estratégias de enfrentamento e consumo de bebidas alcoólicas durante a pandemia da COVID-19

Abstract

Objective: This doctoral thesis aimed to evaluate and estimate a model of relationships between the cognitive and emotional domains of risk perception, protective and self-protection strategies in coping, consumption of alcoholic beverages as a coping strategy, abusive use of alcohol, depression, impulsivity, stress, and anxiety of Brazilian adults during the pandemic period. Methods: the study was divided into two parts: in the first, 3 scales were developed and validated (risk perception, coping and alcohol consumption during the pandemic), in the second, a network analysis between the variables was estimated. Results: the three scales developed presented psychometric evidence related to the content, internal structure, with external variables and reliability indices within the expected, increasing the probability of making inferences from the results obtained to the theory of the evaluated constructs and their score stabilities. Weak (<30), moderate (>30) and strong (>50) relationships were observed between mental health, sociodemographic, coping, alcohol consumption and risk perception about covid-19. Discussion/Conclusion: it was found that the variables related to mental health (specifically: depression, stress, and anxiety) presented greater centrality (in terms of strength, closeness and betweenness) in the network of relationships between variables, these being key points for possible interventions in future pandemics, thus seeking to promote adaptive coping strategies and avoiding maladaptive and/or abusive consumption of alcoholic beverages.