The effect of conflict-related violence intensity and alcohol use on mental health : The case of Colombia

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We investigated the causal impact of conflict-related violence on individual mental health and its potential pathways in Colombia. Using data from before and after the 2016 peace accord between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), we adopted a difference-in-differences empirical design combined with instrumental variables estimation. We also used formal mediation analysis to investigate a possible mediating role of alcohol consumption in the relationship between conflict exposure and mental health. Our results did not support the hypothesis that changes in exposure to conflict violence after the peace accord causally led to any changes in individual mental health. We were unable to identify a statistically significant mediating effect of alcohol consumption in the relationship between exposure to conflict violence and mental health.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:25

Enthalten in:

SSM - population health - 25(2024) vom: 20. Feb., Seite 101626

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Salas-Ortiz, Andrea [VerfasserIn]
Moreno-Serra, Rodrigo [VerfasserIn]
Kreif, Noemi [VerfasserIn]
Suhrcke, Marc [VerfasserIn]
Casas, German [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Alcohol consumption
Colombia
Conflict violence
Difference-in-Differences
IV
Journal Article
Mediation analysis
Mental health

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Date Revised 27.02.2024

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.ssmph.2024.101626

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM368951391