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Table 1 Characteristics of the studies from 2006 to 2015 included in the meta-analysis of last-30-day alcohol use of Chinese university undergraduate students

From: Estimate of undergraduate university student alcohol use in China: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Reference

Pub year

Sample size

Drinking rate in past 30 days

(%)

Alcohol Use Questionnaire

Response Rate (%)

Trained data collector

Drink definition

School N

University type

Province

East vs. Middle vs. West

North vs. South

Males

Females

Total

Peng et al. [33]

2006

1765

57.90

30.60

45.40

YRBS

98.33

no

yes

7

combined

Shanghai

East

South

Sun [34]

2006

1843

69.60

35.30

48.00

YRBS

96.70T

yes

yes

5

4-year

Sichuan

West

South

Aximu [35]

2007

609

51.30

30.8

42.36

YRBS

N/A

yes

no

N/A

N/A

Xinjiang

West

North

Yin [36]

2007

942

65.40

43.00

54.00

YRBS

96.10

no

yes

2

3-year

Jingzhou

Middle

South

Zhai [37]

2007

1138

30.50

7.50

17.05

YRBS

N/A

yes

yes

2

4-year

Beijing

East

North

J. Zhang et al. [38]

2007

442

44.60

11.20

20.5

ID

N/A

no

no

1

4-year

N/A

N/A

N/A

Zhong [39]

2007

2319

69.00

29.50

50.00

YRBS

N/A

yes

no

8

N/A

Henan

Middle

North

Liang et al. [40]

2008

1752

81.24

35.06

58.39

ID

97.30

yes

no

3

4-year

Baotou

West

North

Ruan et al. [41]

2009

4013

64.20

31.20

44.50

YRBS

99.45a

yes

yes

4

N/A

Guangxi

West

South

Z. Wang et al. [42]

2009

3051

37.11

12.13

26.12

ID

99.18a

no

yes

8

combined

Beijing

East

North

Yu [43]

2009

978

84.63

51.30

71.47

ID

97.80

no

no

5

4-year

Liaoning

East

North

Zhu et al. [44]

2009

615

71.60

41.67

53.50

YRBS

97.43a

no

no

2

N/A

Gansu

West

North

Dai et al. [45]

2010

1025

46.20

22.20

34.1

YRBS

93.20

yes

no

1

4-year

Guangdong

East

South

Guo & Liu [46]

2010

992

82.50

37.90

54.60

YRBS

99.20

yes

no

2

3-year

Shandong

East

North

Lin [47]

2010

686

65.20

38.60

53.94

YRBS

99.88T

yes

yes

2

N/A

Fujian

East

South

C. Zhang et al. [48]

2010

2126

41.60

18.40

30.90

YRBS

96.64

yes

yes

6

combined

Qinhuangdao

East

North

T. Zhang et al. [49]

2010

576

68.60

30.80

51.40

YRBS

100.00

yes

yes

2

4-year

Chengdu

West

South

Liu et al. [50]

2011

397

98.25

80.96

90.93

ID

88.22

no

no

5

N/A

Mongolia Baotou

West

North

Cao et al. [51]

2012

1807

72.21

37.80

54.17

YRBS

N/A

yes

yes

N/A

N/A

Qinghai

West

North

Ji et al. [8]

2012

51,250

66.60

34.70

49.30

YRBS

81.40

no

yes

119

combined

National

N/A

N/A

L. Xu [52]

2012

516

59.50

28.40

41.10

YRBS

100.00

yes

yes

1

4-year

Shan’xi

West

North

Guo et al. [53]

2013

7979

58.60

26.90

42.20

YRBS

N/A

no

yes

44

combined

National

N/A

N/A

Newman, Jinnai, et al. [54]

2013

725

60.77

29.02

43.86

ID

67.10

yes

no

4

N/A

Beijing, Ji’nan, Wuhan, Xianning

N/A

N/A

X. Xu et al. [55]

2013

1437

56.50

23.00

38.00

YRBS

88.50

yes

yes

3

combined

Jiangsu Nantong

East

South

R. Zhang [56]

2013

1968

62.00

29.80

41.92

YRBS

N/A

yes

no

6

4-year

Zhejiang

East

South

Newman, Huang, et al. [57]

2014

530

62.50

26.00

39.20

ID

90.30

yes

no

4

N/A

Beijing, Zhengzhou

N/A

North

Wan [58]

2014

492

94.30

56.20

72.56

ID

94.60

yes

no

1

4-year

Hun’an

Middle

South

Y. Zhang et al. [59]

2014

1044

61.30

26.20

40.23

YRBS

99.73T

yes

yes

3

3-year

Jiangsu

East

South

Du et al. [60]

2015

1452

58.70

20.20

33.10

ID

96.80

no

yes

3

4-year

Qinghai

West

North

C. Wang et al. [61]

2015

2849

92.30

68.80

80.20

ID

95.00

yes

yes

8

combined

Anhui Hefei

Middle

South

  1. aSome studies were not limited to only university students. In these cases the response rate included their total sample rather than just the university students