很多父母如何处理家庭学校：通过喝更多的酒和吸烟更多的浓汤

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新的研究表明，在大流行期间，强制性的家庭学习导致加拿大父母的饮酒量增加。

这一发现在题为“通过大流行的育儿的研究论文中概述了：心理健康和物质使用的后果。”

The paper was recently accepted for publication in the journal ‘Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice.’ Its authors include Dalhousie University researchers Helen Deacon, Sherry Stewart, and Simon Sherry.

Dalhousie University professor and clinical psychologist Simon Sherry. Photo: Contributed

“这是我认为，我认为许多家庭上学的父母（由于19岁而被迫在家上学）会引起人们的共鸣，”他也是一位实践临床心理学家的雪利酒在接受采访时说。

“During the pandemic, people who were more or less required to participate in home schooling reported not only drinking more, but drinking more to cope.”

作者发现，取决于省，城市甚至是个人学校，被锁定的强制性家庭学习通常是受教育体系的最低支持。这是在许多父母也挣扎着在家工作的挑战。

作者在摘要中指出：“乐观的水平显着降低，大麻在应对酒精中的使用和较高的使用来应对与不是家庭学校的夫妻的饮酒。”“这些水平高于院前规范。”

雪利酒说，这一发现是另一个明显的提醒，导致Covid-19的病毒并不是我们唯一需要恐惧的事物。

尽管有些父母可能因其压力或减轻焦虑的特性而转向酒精，但他说这是一种无效和“冒险”的方法。

“We find that people who drink in an effort to cope actually escalate to more problematic patterns of the use of a substance like alcohol,” he said.

One parent told the Halifax Examiner that she found herself turning to alcohol “regularly each night” amid the stresses of trying to juggle working from home and helping her children manage their online school work last year. We’ve agreed not to disclose her name to protect her privacy and that of her children.

“我记得回想起人们以前如何说‘你要开车喝我喝酒'，并以为那是我。大流行和一切的压力立刻似乎驱使我喝酒。很多酒。”她回忆道。“我知道这不是最好的主意，但这是我当时的想法。回顾过去，这不是一个不错的选择。但是由于他们回到学校，所以我缩回了。”

Almost 50% of Nova Scotians turned to alcohol and cannabis more frequently during lockdown

雪利酒一直在发出有关自从开始大流行期间饮酒量增加的危险的警报。他说，工作日和周末之间的工作与家庭生活之间缺乏界限，“非常有利于”更多的人频繁喝酒。

“It’s eroded a lot of the markers we had for where alcohol was and was not appropriate,” he said.

虽然我们本能地担心病毒和大流行，但雪莉认为我们正在忽视长期的生活方式选择是加拿大人的“主要杀手”。他说，这部分是由于他描述的“进化形状的盲点”。

“我认为对Covid-19的恐惧和厌恶是我们的。但是，从长远来看，与生活方式选择有关的疾病和问题并非如此……我们应该害怕至少与Covid-19的饮酒和吸烟，但我们没有。”

“Our brain has prepared us, through millions of years of evolution, to fear coronavirus but not Corona beer…We have this great fear of COVID-19 occurring, but we casually drink alcohol and smoke cannabis.”

Sherry said his latest research — currently undergoing peer review — found that close to 50% of Nova Scotians reported using alcohol or cannabis more frequently during the lockdown phase of the pandemic. In addition, 30% reported increases in the quantity (amount) of alcohol or cannabis they were consuming.

“That’s quite meaningful. It’s also the case, though, that the majority of people reported that their consumption had gone unchanged,” he said.

“But if you piece together our data with other data available throughout Canada or throughout North America, you can see that there are shifts occurring in terms of a meaningful subset of the population drinking more or using more cannabis.”

雪利酒称其为“ Covid-19悖论”，解释说，人们愿意采取极端措施保护自己免受病毒的侵害，同时还从事损害健康并缩短生活的行为。他说，酒精会破坏免疫系统并破坏人体防御感染的防御能力，而大麻会损害免疫系统功能并影响肺部健康。

他说：“在大流行期间，涉及攻击您肺部的病毒，似乎不明智地将许多燃烧的化学物质和细颗粒放入您的肺部。”

“同样，在加拿大，酒精是一个非常严重的问题。由于可归因于饮酒，我们估计每年失去18,000人。这是一个惊人的数字。由于酒精饮料，我们还估计有90,000次住院。”

尽管Covid-19由于其直接影响而引起了所有关注，但Sherry表示，由于饮酒，我们已经将疾病和死亡“正常化”，因为负面后果通常在下游。

大流行饮酒可能会带来“严重的下游后果”

Sherry said he “absolutely” has grave concerns that increased rates of alcohol consumption during the pandemic will have long lasting repercussions that will negatively impact Nova Scotians going forward.

他说，在大流行的压力，压力和持续的变化中保持清醒，这使许多人有复发的危险。同样，他担心人们认为高危（以有问题的方式饮酒）更有可能过渡到成熟的酒精使用障碍的风险。

Sherry说：“酒精在加拿大被归类为您所谓的1级致癌物质，因此它在与烟草和石棉相同的水平上具有致癌性。”

“So if you have a population-wide increase in the consumption of levels of alcohol, that’s going to have serious downstream consequences in terms of alcohol attributable hospitalizations and deaths.”