Autistic traits and alcohol use in adolescents within the general population

Publié le 23 mars 2022 - European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Auteurs : Lisa Pijnenburg, Anais Kaplun, Lieuwe de Haan, Magdalena Janecka, Lauren Smith, Abraham Reichenberg, Tobias Banaschewski, Arun Bokde, Erin Burke Quinlan, Sylvane Desrivières, Antoine Grigis, Hugh Garavan, Penny Gowland, Andreas Heinz, Bernd Ittermann, Jean-Luc Martinot, Marie-Laure Paillère Martinot, Frauke Nees, Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos, Tomáš Paus, Luise Poustka, Sarah Hohmann, Sabina Millenet, Juliane Fröhner, Michael Smolka, Henrik Walter, Robert Whelan, Gunter Schumann, Eva Velthorst

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Abstract It has been suggested that autistic traits are associated with less frequent alcohol use in adolescence. Our study seeks to examine the relationship between autistic traits and alcohol use in a large adolescent population. Leveraging data from the IMAGEN cohort, including 2045 14-year-old adolescents that were followed-up to age 18, we selected items on social preference/skills and rigidity from different questionnaires. We used linear regression models to (1) test the effect of the sum scores on the prevalence of alcohol use (AUDIT-C) over time, (2) explore the relationship between autistic traits and alcohol use patterns, and (3) explore the specific effect of each autistic trait on alcohol use. Higher scores on the selected items were associated with trajectories of less alcohol use from the ages between 14 and 18 ( b = − 0.030; CI 95% = − 0.042, − 0.017; p