Reliability Generalization of Alcohol Screening Measures

酒精筛查措施的可靠性概括

• 批准号: 6618607
• 负责人: KIMBERLY A WALLACE
• 金额: $ 10.5万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-08-01 至 2005-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6618607
• 关键词: Internet; alcoholism /alcohol abuse; clinical research; data collection methodology /evaluation; human data; mathematical model; psychometrics; statistics /biometry; technology /technique development

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Alcohol use disorders are damaging personal and social problems. One reason these disorders remain so costly is that individuals with alcohol problems go undetected and consequently, opportunities for intervention are missed. In order to minimize the harm and cost associated with alcohol problems, their early and accurate identification is vital. While considerable work has been done on the validity of scores generated by alcohol screening measures, relatively little information is available on their reliability. In order to improve understanding of how scores from these measures perform and give healthcare providers an enhanced empirical foundation to refer to when using them, three specific aims are outlined: (1) To perform reliability generalizations (RGs) of the 25 self report alcohol screening measures recognized by NIAAA, (2) to develop and test new methods of analyzing RG data, and (3) to perform dissemination activities including publishing the results of the proposed activities in alcohol research journals, presenting the results at professional conferences, and maintaining a content oriented WWW site. Reliability Generalization studies have two main objectives: (1) to characterize the typical reliability of scores for a measure and (2) to examine factors that may be related to the reliability of those scores. This method allows for the integration of all published research using the identified measures and, therefore, a far broader analysis of scores generated by the measures than would be possible in any one study. This will be accomplished by performing through literature reviews of each measure, extracting and coding reliability coefficients and the test and sample characteristics provided in the literature, and analyzing this data in order to determine which characteristics are associated with scores having greater or lesser reliability. Results will be immediately useful in assisting healthcare providers and researchers select the most appropriate alcohol screening measure to use for their purpose.

描述（由申请人提供）：酒精使用障碍正在造成破坏性的个人和社会问题。这些疾病仍然如此昂贵的原因之一是，患有酒精问题的人未被发现，因此错过了干预的机会。为了最大限度地减少与酒精问题相关的危害和成本，尽早准确识别酒精问题至关重要。虽然在酒精筛查措施产生的分数的有效性方面已经做了相当多的工作，但关于其可靠性的信息相对较少。为了加深对这些指标的得分表现的理解，并为医疗保健提供者提供增强的经验基础以供使用时参考，概述了三个具体目标：(1) 对 25 项自我报告酒精筛查进行可靠性概括 (RG) NIAAA 认可的措施，(2) 开发和测试分析 RG 数据的新方法，以及 (3) 开展传播活动，包括在酒精研究期刊上发表拟议活动的结果、在专业会议上展示结果以及维持内容导向万维网 地点。 可靠性概括研究有两个主要目标：(1) 表征某项测量分数的典型可靠性；(2) 检查可能与这些分数的可靠性相关的因素。该方法允许使用已确定的衡量标准整合所有已发表的研究，因此，对这些衡量标准生成的分数进行比任何一项研究都可能进行的更广泛的分析。这将通过对每个测量进行文献回顾、提取和编码文献中提供的可靠性系数以及测试和样本特征，并分析该数据以确定哪些特征与具有更高或更低可靠性的分数相关来完成。结果将立即有助于帮助医疗保健提供者和研究人员选择最合适的酒精筛查措施来实现其目的。