Degree of correspondence between daily monitoring and retrospective recall of alcohol use among men and women with comorbid AUD and PTSD

Krenek, Marketa; Lyons, Robert; Simpson, Tracy L.

doi:10.1111/ajad.12342

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“…Results suggest agreement between the retrospective TLFB and smartphone-based daily interviews when evaluating PDA and PHDD. This finding is in line with other recent research comparing technology-based assessment of daily drinking with Form-25 (Miller & Del Boca, 1994), another calendar-based retrospective recall measure in finding good correspondence between the two measurement methods for PHDD and PDA (Krenek, Lyons & Simpson, 2016). With regard to DDD, this study found significant disagreement between the two assessment methods over time, suggesting a deterioration of participants’ ability to recall the number of drinks consumed on a given drinking day with accuracy at more distal time points.…”

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Comparisons of alcohol consumption by timeline follow back vs.smartphone-based daily interviews

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Alvarado

Fitterling

et al. 2016

Addiction Research & Theory

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This study compared alcohol consumption data collected through daily interviews on a smartphone with data collected via the Timeline Follow-Back (TLFB) during a 6-week pilot study of a smartphone-based alcohol intervention system. The focus of the study was to assess for discrepancies between the two measurement methodologies on commonly utilized alcohol outcome variables. Twenty-five participants between 22 and 45 years of age and were drinking heavily at study incipience completed a 6-week alcohol intervention delivered by a smartphone application that monitored drinking through a daily interview. Participants also completed a TLFB of their alcohol consumption during the intervention period. Difference scores were calculated by subtracting the average weekly outcome variables derived from the smartphone daily interview from the average weekly outcome variables derived from the TLFB which yielded six discrepancy scores for each of the 25 participants and resulted in 150 observations. Heirarchical linear modeling indicated that the TLFB and smartphone daily interview methods did not produce significant discrepancies over the 6-week interval when examining percent of heavy drinking days and percent of days abstinent. However, discrepancies on drinks per drinking day increased substantially over time, suggesting that it is susceptible to recall bias when assessed by the TLFB. Results also indicated that participants under-reported their drinking on the TLFB compared to the daily smartphone-based assessment. Results indicate that outside of assessing for extreme drinking (binge or no drinking), the TLFB should be used cautiously and that smartphone apps represent a promising method for accurately assessing alcohol consumption over time.

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Comparisons of alcohol consumption by timeline follow back vs.smartphone-based daily interviews

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Fitterling

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“…Depression and treatment condition did not affect daily PTSD symptoms or moderate of the association of retrospective and daily PTSD. Men reported higher daily levels of re-experiencing and avoidance symptoms, and although Krenek et al, (2016) found that gender moderated correspondence of daily and retrospective drinking reports, we did not find similar effects for any symptom cluster. Age was significantly associated with daily avoidance and arousal symptoms, with older participants reporting higher daily levels of both symptoms, relative to younger participants.…”

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“…Thus, age may be associated with both retrospectively under- and over-reporting symptoms, therefore influencing concordance with daily reports. Conflicting evidence also exists regarding gender, with some research suggesting that women are more likely to retrospectively over-report emotion intensity (e.g., Feldman-Barrett, Robin, Pietromonaco, & Eyssell, 1998; Levine & Bluck, 1997), while other research has shown that men display worse agreement than women in their daily and retrospective reports of alcohol consumption (Krenek, Lyons, & Simpson, 2016). Another relevant participant characteristic is depression severity.…”

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“…Additionally, this study only analyzed between-person differences in alcohol consumption, and did not examine within-person variation in consumption as a potential moderator of concordance. Past research with heavy drinkers carrying dual diagnoses of PTSD and alcohol use disorder (AUD) (Krenek et al, 2016) found moderate-to-weak daily/retrospective correspondence in reports of alcohol consumption, suggesting that dually-diagnosed individuals may have particular difficulty with retrospective recall accuracy. Indeed, there are significant memory concerns inherent to both PTSD and AUD (meta-analysis by Scott et al, 2015).…”

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The Role of Patient Characteristics in the Concordance of Daily and Retrospective Reports of PTSD

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Research has documented discrepancies between daily and retrospective reports of psychological symptoms in a variety of conditions. A limited number of studies have assessed these discrepancies in samples of individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), with even less research addressing potential covariates that may influence such discrepancies. In the current study, 65 individuals with co-occurring PTSD and alcohol use disorder (AUD) completed daily assessments of their PTSD symptoms for one month, followed by a standard retrospective report of PTSD over the same month. Initial analyses explored the mean levels of daily and retrospective PTSD symptoms, while multilevel models assessed the level of agreement between daily and retrospective reports and the role of demographic variables and comorbid psychopathology (e.g., depression) or substance use (e.g., alcohol use) in moderating the association of daily and retrospective reports. Results showed that retrospective reports of arousal and avoidance symptoms were weakly related to daily reports of these symptoms, while reports of re-experiencing and numbing symptoms showed better agreement. Intra-individual alcohol consumption also moderated associations of re-experiencing and avoidance symptoms, such that on days individuals drank more, their daily reports resembled their retrospective reports less well. Future research should explore the degree to which these results generalize to non-dually-diagnosed samples, as well as the role such reporting discrepancies may play in PTSD treatment.

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“…The data used in the current study have yielded previously published articles (Simpson, Stappenbeck, Luterek, Lehavot & Kaysen, 2014; Lehavot, Stappenbeck, Luterek, Kaysen & Simpson, 2015; Stappenbeck, Luterek, Kaysen, Rosenthal, Gurrad & Simpson, 2015; Browne, Wray, Stappenbeck, Krenek & Simpson, 2016; Krenek, Lyons & Simpson, 2016). …”

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Daily associations between PTSD, drinking, and self-appraised alcohol-related problems.

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Krenek²,

Dennis³

et al. 2017

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

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Alcohol dependence (AD) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are highly comorbid, yet limited research has focused on PTSD and daily drinking as they relate to self-appraised alcohol-related problems. In treatment contexts, patients’ appraisals of alcohol-related problems have implications for assessment, intervention strategies, and prognosis. This study investigated the moderating effect of within-person (daily symptoms) and between-person (overall severity) differences in PTSD on the association between daily drinking and same-day alcohol-related problems. Participants with comorbid AD and PTSD (N = 86) completed one week of Interactive Voice Recognition data collection, and logistic and gamma-adjusted multilevel models were used to estimate odds and magnitude of self-appraised alcohol-related problems. Results revealed that both within-person and between-person PTSD moderated the association between number of drinks and severity of self-appraised problems. As within-person and between-person PTSD symptoms increased, there was a weaker association between number of drinks consumed and perceived alcohol-related problems. Contrasts further revealed that on non-drinking and light-drinking days, PTSD (both daily symptoms and overall severity) was positively associated with ratings of alcohol-related problems. However, PTSD was not associated with alcohol-related problems on heavier drinking days. In conclusion, more severe PTSD is associated with a less directly contingent relationship between drinking quantity and perceived alcohol-related problems. These findings suggest the importance of further investigations of this moderating effect as well as clinical treatment of comorbid AD and severe PTSD with functional analysis of drinking.

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Degree of correspondence between daily monitoring and retrospective recall of alcohol use among men and women with comorbid AUD and PTSD

Abstract: Findings highlight the importance of considering the influence that moderating variables have on reporting of alcohol use.

Cited by 11 publications

References 29 publications

Comparisons of alcohol consumption by timeline follow back vs.smartphone-based daily interviews

Comparisons of alcohol consumption by timeline follow back vs.smartphone-based daily interviews

The Role of Patient Characteristics in the Concordance of Daily and Retrospective Reports of PTSD

Daily associations between PTSD, drinking, and self-appraised alcohol-related problems.

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