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Owing to preventive measures implemented during the pandemic (social distancing or lockdown), self\u2010help group (SHG) meetings were restricted. However, the impact of deprivation of onsite recovery meetings on drinking behavior and risk among SHG members with AUD remains unclear. We examined the proportion of SHG members who reported drinking and their reasons for drinking during the early stages of the pandemic and the effect of nonattendance at onsite recovery meetings on drinking behavior during the early pandemic period, stratified by gender.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>A national cross\u2010sectional survey of Japanese SHG members was conducted to measure self\u2010reported alcohol consumption, sociodemographic characteristics, AUD diagnosis, treatment status, SHG meeting attendance, membership duration, psychological distress, and health\u2010related variables. Of 6478 SHG members, 2955 (male: <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20092678; female: <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009277; response rate: 46.7%) responded, and the responses were analyzed using a gender\u2010stratified multivariate logistic regression model.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Most participants reported having abstained from alcohol use, while 6% of the respondents reported having consumed alcohol during the early stages of the pandemic. The proportion of \u201cdrinkers\u201d among women (10.5%) was significantly higher than that among men (5.9%; <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.012). Through multivariate model analysis, the factors associated with drinking during the pandemic were identified as psychological distress (among men and women) and not attending onsite recovery meetings (among men). Conversely, a longer duration of SHG membership was associated with less drinking during the pandemic for both genders.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>Most SHG members appear to have remained abstinent during the early stages of the COVID\u201019 pandemic. However, psychological distress in both genders and the inability to attend recovery meetings among men may have influenced drinking behavior.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1111\/acer.15166","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,8,9]],"date-time":"2023-08-09T03:44:46Z","timestamp":1691552686000},"page":"1904-1916","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Impact of <scp>COVID<\/scp>\u201019 and restricted self\u2010help group attendance on drinking behavior among people with alcohol use disorder: Results of a nationwide cross\u2010sectional survey"],"prefix":"10.1111","volume":"47","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3733-0110","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chie","family":"Nitta","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"National Hospital Organization, Kurihama Medical and Addiction Center  Yokosuka Japan"},{"name":"Institute of Medicine University of Tsukuba  Tsukuba\u2010shi Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sachio","family":"Matsushita","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Hospital Organization, Kurihama Medical and Addiction Center  Yokosuka Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,8,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_9_2_1","unstructured":"Alcoholics Anonymous Japan General Service. 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