METHODS FOR IMPROVING MEASUREMENT OF ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION

改进酒精消耗测量的方法

• 批准号: 6563136
• 负责人: Lee A Kaskutas
• 金额: $ 24.29万
• 依托单位: PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-01-01 至 2002-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6563136
• 关键词: alcoholic beverage consumption; alcoholism /alcohol abuse; analytical method; clinical research; cognition; computer program /software; data collection methodology /evaluation; human data; human subject; interview; population survey; psychometrics; racial /ethnic difference; substance abuse epidemiology

DESCRIPTION: This research is designed to improve the reliability and validity of alcohol consumption and problem measures. It directly contributes to the Center?s charter of gathering and analyzing data in ways that advance methods, and will enhance the Center?s research on the epidemiology of drinking problems in the general population and its service populations. The approach taken here recognizes and addresses the two broad categories of drinking consequences: drinking problems due to hazardous heavy-drinking episodes (as with drunk driving and injuries); and those that result from long-term harmful volume levels (as with liver disease and dependence). Three methodological studies are proposed. The first "Studies of Self-Defined Drink Size", tests and implements innovative methodologies to elicit drink size from telephone survey respondents, hypothesizing that average daily volume as well as rate of heavy drinking will be greater when respondent-defined, beverage-specific drink sizes are considered. Findings have implications for alcohol epidemiology (by potentially accounting in surveys for greater proportion of aggregate consumption based on alcohol sales data; more accurate mapping of the distribution of consumption, by ethnicity, gender, region; etc.), for risk assessment (as with pregnant drinkers, especially those drinking higher alcohol-content beverages in larger-than-standard sizes), and for health services (where, for example, methodologies under study here may be used to help at-risk drinkers become aware of their larger drink sizes). The second study, "Interactive Voice Response (IVR)", examines the value and applicability to alcohol surveys of IVR technology in which respondents interact with a computer (using their telephone key pad) to answer questions about sensitive behaviors such as risky sex, drinking and driving, heavy drinking, etc. Higher prevalence rates for alcohol consumption, dependence, and related risk behaviors are hypothesized for IVR-administered items than when telephone survey interviewers are used. The third study determines the validity of self-report drinking compared to breathanalysis-based Blood Alcohol Levels (BAL) across different contexts and cultures including bars in the U.S. as well as emergency room (ER) settings in the U.S. and five other countries. Analysis of variables which influence biases in self-reported consumption in both ER and bar drinking samples will increase our knowledge about ways that event-specific self-report alcohol measurement might be improved. Each of these three studies interacts with and informs other Center components and addresses its major themes.

描述：本研究旨在提高可靠性和 饮酒和问题指标的有效性。它直接贡献 以进步的方式收集和分析数据的中心章程 方法，将增强中心的研究 普通人群及其服务人群中的饮酒问题。这 这里采用的方法认可并解决了这两个广泛类别 饮酒后果：由于危险的饮酒而引起的饮酒问题 情节（与醉酒和受伤一样）；以及那些由 长期有害体积水平（与肝病和依赖性一样）。三 提出了方法研究。第一个“自定义饮料的研究 大小”，测试和实施创新的方法，以从 电话调查受访者，假设平均每日量 当受访者定义，特定于饮料时，大量饮酒率会更高 考虑了饮料尺寸。发现对酒精有影响 流行病学（通过在调查中有可能会计更大比例 基于酒精销售数据的总消费；更准确的映射 通过种族，性别，地区的消费分配；等），为风险 评估（与怀孕的饮酒者一样，尤其是那些饮酒的人 酒精含量大于标准的饮料） 服务（例如，这里研究的方法可以用来 帮助高危饮酒者意识到他们的较大饮料尺寸）。第二个 研究“交互式语音响应（IVR）”，检查了价值和 对IVR技术的酒精调查的适用性 与计算机互动（使用他们的电话键垫）回答问题 关于敏感行为，例如风险的性，饮酒和驾驶，沉重 饮酒等 与IVR管理项目相比，相关的风险行为比 使用电话调查访问者时。第三项研究决定了 与基于呼吸分析的血液相比，自我报告饮酒的有效性 酒精含量（BAL）在不同的情况和文化中，包括酒吧 美国以及美国和其他五个急诊室（ER）设置 国家。分析影响自我报告偏见的变量 急诊室和酒吧饮用样品的消费都会增加我们的知识 关于特定事件的自我报告酒精测量的方式 改进。这三项研究中的每一个都与其他中心互动并告知 组件并解决其主要主题。