PMID- 34957466
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20211228
IS  - 2673-5059 (Electronic)
IS  - 2673-5059 (Linking)
VI  - 2
DP  - 2021
TI  - Online Sobriety Communities for Women's Problematic Alcohol Use: A Mini Review of 
      Existing Qualitative and Quantitative Research.
PG  - 773921
LID - 10.3389/fgwh.2021.773921 [doi]
LID - 773921
AB  - The increase in women's drinking is one of the most prominent trends in alcohol 
      consumption in the UK in recent history, possibly exacerbated by COVID-19 
      lockdown measures. Higher rates of drinking are associated with substantial 
      economic, health, and social costs. However, women are less likely to seek 
      treatment for Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) than men and have less successful 
      treatment outcomes from traditional treatment paths, such as 12-step programs and 
      in-patient care. Female heavy drinkers may also experience particular forms of 
      gendered stigma that affect their experiences of addiction and recovery and their 
      desire or ability to access these more "traditional" services. This review 
      provides an overview of existing qualitative and quantitative research regarding 
      online sobriety communities that are predominantly utilised by women, such as 
      non-12-step alcohol online support groups (AOSGs) and temporary abstinence 
      initiatives (TAIs). This is a small-but expanding-body of literature emerging as 
      "sober curiosity" and "mindful drinking" are trending in Western contexts such as 
      the UK, particularly amongst young women who do not identify with traditional, 
      binary recovery language such as "alcoholic" and "addict." This review highlights 
      the gaps in research and concludes that further research regarding these new 
      treatment pathways, and women's experiences when utilising them, must be 
      conducted to provide more evidence-based options for women who want to address 
      problematic drinking. Public health bodies could also learn more effective 
      strategies from these innovative solutions to reduce alcohol consumption 
      generally.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2021 Davey.
FAU - Davey, Claire
AU  - Davey C
AD  - Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, 
      United Kingdom.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Review
DEP - 20211209
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Front Glob Womens Health
JT  - Frontiers in global women's health
JID - 101776281
PMC - PMC8695609
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - alcohol online support groups
OT  - online sobriety communities
OT  - temporary abstinence campaigns
OT  - women in sobriety
OT  - women's recovery
COIS- The author declares that the research was conducted in the absence of any 
      commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential 
      conflict of interest.
EDAT- 2021/12/28 06:00
MHDA- 2021/12/28 06:01
PMCR- 2021/12/09
CRDT- 2021/12/27 06:38
PHST- 2021/09/10 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2021/11/17 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2021/12/27 06:38 [entrez]
PHST- 2021/12/28 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/12/28 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2021/12/09 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.3389/fgwh.2021.773921 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Front Glob Womens Health. 2021 Dec 9;2:773921. doi: 10.3389/fgwh.2021.773921. 
      eCollection 2021.