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Reliability of alcohol abusers' self-reports of drinking behavior.
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The test-retest reliability of alcohol abusers' self-reports of their daily drinking and daily drinking, alcohol-related incarcerations and their drinking problem history were highly reliable, and limits on the generalizability of these finclings are discussed.About:
This article is published in Behaviour Research and Therapy.The article was published on 1979-01-01. It has received 717 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Alcohol abuse & Poison control.read more
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Timeline Follow-Back A Technique for Assessing Self-Reported Alcohol Consumption
Linda C. Sobell,Mark B. Sobell +1 more
TL;DR: Concerns about how best to measure drinking patterns and problems date back to at least 1926, when Pearl stressed the importance of separating steady daily drinkers from occasional heavy drinkers.
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The validity of self-reports of alcohol consumption: state of the science and challenges for research.
Frances K. Del Boca,Jack Darkes +1 more
TL;DR: Self-report methods offer a reliable and valid approach to measuring alcohol consumption, however, the accuracy of such methods can be improved by research directed at understanding the processes involved in response behavior.
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Reliability of a timeline method: assessing normal drinkers' reports of recent drinking and a comparative evaluation across several populations.
TL;DR: Since the TL method has now been shown to have fairly good reliability for assessing recent drinking across a broad range of drinkers, it can be used for comparative evaluations of drinking behaviour across studies with different subject populations.
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Reliability of alcohol use indices. The Lifetime Drinking History and the MAST.
Harvey A. Skinner,Wen-Jenn Sheu +1 more
TL;DR: Factors which influence test-retest reliability are examined for the widely used Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (MAST) and for the Lifetime Drinking History (LDH), a structured interview that quantifies lifetime patterns of alcohol consumption.
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The reliability of the Alcohol Timeline Followback when administered by telephone and by computer
TL;DR: Results are presented from two studies showing that the Alcohol TLFB method can obtain reliable drinking data when administered over the telephone and by computer.
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Comparison of alcoholics' self-reports of drinking behavior with reports of collateral informants
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