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）：酒精使用障碍正在损害个人和社会问题。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，因此错过了干预机会。为了最大程度地减少与酒精问题相关的危害和成本，它们的早期和准确的识别至关重要。尽管对酒精筛查措施产生的分数的有效性已经完成了大量工作，但有关其可靠性的信息相对较少。为了提高对这些措施的评分表现的理解，并为医疗保健提供者提供了一个增强的经验基础，以参考使用它们时，概述了三个具体目标：（1）执行25种自我报告的可靠性概括（RGS），对NIAAA识别的酒精筛查措施进行了NIAAA认识的NIAAA识别，（2）提出了提出的活动，并在分析RG数据和（3）的活动中（3），（3）研究期刊，在专业会议上介绍结果，并维持面向内容的www网站。 可靠性概括研究具有两个主要目标：（1）表征度量分数的典型可靠性和（2）来检查可能与这些分数可靠性相关的因素。这种方法允许使用已确定的度量进行所有已发表的研究集成，因此，对措施产生的分数的分析要比任何一项研究中所能提供的要多得多。这将通过对每种度量，提取和编码可靠性系数以及文献中提供的测试和样本特征进行文献综述以及分析该数据以确定哪些特征与具有越来越多或更少的可靠性相关的测试和样本特征来实现。结果将立即有助于帮助医疗保健提供者，研究人员选择最适合其目的的酒精筛查措施。