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ABSTRACT
Introduction
Understanding the role of mass media in shaping the perception of individual health behavior in India, alcohol promoting advertisement bans were imposed on all mass media platforms. However, minimal research explored how the mass media had influenced the alcohol behavior of Indian individual’s overtime after imposing a an. The present study examined the effect of mass media exposure to abate alcohol consumption behavior among the Indian population, adjusting for heterogeneity in the risk of alcohol consumption across India’s communities and states.
Methods
The India Human Development Survey panel data, including 16661 individuals, were used for analysis. Multivariable analyses were performed using three-level random intercept logit models to show the variation in consumption behavior across communities and states.
Results
Watching TV, listening to the radio and reading newspapers had no significant influence on alcohol consumption during 2005 and 2012, respectively. We have found a high correlation of alcohol consumption among individuals belonging to the same community and state.
Conclusion
The study found an insignificant association of mass media with alcohol consumption but higher heterogeneity at the community and state levels. Thus, it suggests programs and campaigns targeting a particular group to address India’s high-risk communities and states.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
Ethics statement
IHDS datasets used for analysis were publicly available with no information that discloses the identity of the respondents. Thus, there was no need for prior ethical approval for using the datasets.
Data availability
The datasets used for this study are publicly available from the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) data repository (Desai & Vanneman, Citation2015; Desai et al., Citation2008).