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Association between severe psychological distress and spousal alcohol drinking status among married couples in Japan: a cross-sectional study using nationally representative survey data

Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-026-29177-0

Published Online: 2026-08-27

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Okui, Tasuku https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5098-8502
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Funding for this research was provided by:

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JP26K05255)
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Article History

Received: 15 July 2026

Accepted: 21 August 2026

First Online: 27 August 2026

Declarations

Ethics approval and consent to participate: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This study was approved by the Kyushu University Institutional Review Board for Clinical Research (No. 25034). Informed consent was not required for this retrospective study because we used the official statistics data that were provided from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare on the basis of the Statistics Act in Japan.

Consent for publication: Not applicable.

Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.

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