Development of a Questionnaire to Measure Alcohol Dependence

Raistrick, Duncan; Dunbar, Geoff; Davidson, Robin

doi:10.1111/j.1360-0443.1983.tb02484.x

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“…The Short Alcohol Dependence Data Questionnaire (SADD; Davidson & Raistrick, 1986) is a 15-item measure of alcohol dependence. The SADD has demonstrated good internal reliability (Raistrick, Dunbar, & Davidson, 1983) and concurrent validity (Davidson & Raistrick, 1986). In previous studies of SMI individuals (e.g., Gonzalez, Bradizza, Vincent, Stasiewicz, & Paas, 2007), the SADD has had good internal consistency.…”

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Factors affecting agreement between severely mentally ill alcohol abusers' and collaterals' reports of alcohol and other substance abuse.

Stasiewicz¹,

Vincent²,

Bradizza³

et al. 2008

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

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This study examined subject-collateral reports of alcohol use among a sample of 167 dually diagnosed individuals seeking outpatient treatment at a community mental health clinic. All subjects met Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed.; American Psychiatric Association, 1994) criteria for a schizophrenia-spectrum or bipolar disorder and for alcohol abuse or dependence. Subjects were recruited within 2 weeks of treatment entry and completed measures of cognitive functioning, alcohol dependence severity, psychiatric symptoms, and quantity and frequency of substance use over the previous 60 days using the Timeline Follow-Back interview (L. C. Sobell & M. B. Sobell, 1996). They also provided a urine sample, which was screened for recent drug use. Collateral interviews were conducted by phone and included an assessment of the subject's alcohol and drug use over the same 60-day period. Collaterals also reported their confidence in the accuracy of their reports. Overall, the results indicated generally poor subjectcollateral agreement. However, subject-collateral agreement appeared better for those individuals (n = 97) with negative urine drug screens. The most consistent predictor of subject-collateral discrepancy scores was subjects' recent drug use. Recommendations for enhancing the validity of self-reports of substance use in a severely mentally ill population are discussed. Keywordsalcohol; bipolar; collaterals; self-report; schizophrenia Verbal self-report continues to be the primary method by which clinicians and researchers obtain measurements of a person's past substance use (Connors & Maisto, 2003). Collateral reports are viewed as an important second measure of an individual's drinking and drug use behavior. In a recent review of the subject-collateral (S-C) literature, Connors and Maisto (2003) concluded that "recent research supports the assertion that subjects provide accurate NIH-PA Author ManuscriptNIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript reports about their drinking and associated consequences" (p. 21). This conclusion was drawn from research examining S-C agreement among various clinical (e.g., outpatient alcoholics) and non-clinical (e.g., general population) subject populations.Although information obtained from alcohol-dependent men and women tends to be reliable and valid, there can be considerable variability in accuracy depending on many factors (Babor & Del Boca, 1992). In an effort to provide a framework for understanding the optimal conditions for obtaining self-report information, Babor, Brown, and Del Boca (1990;Babor & Del Boca, 1992;Babor, Stephens, & Marlatt, 1987) proposed a conceptual model that specifies the major sources of unreliability and invalidity in the questionanswering process. In brief, within the social context of the interview, the respondent's selfreport is said to be influenced directly by a combination of task variables, respondent characteristics, motivation, and cognitive processes. A key benefit of this model is that it sugges...

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Factors affecting agreement between severely mentally ill alcohol abusers' and collaterals' reports of alcohol and other substance abuse.

Stasiewicz¹,

Vincent²,

Bradizza³

et al. 2008

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

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“…Ces questionnaires ont été soumis à des évaluations psychométriques et montrent des résultats valides et fiables. Ainsi, la cohérence interne du Questionnaire bref de dépendance à l'alcool est de 0,87 (Raistrick, Dunbar et Davidson, 1983). La fidélité test-retest est adéquate avec des coefficients de 0,90 pour un intervalle d'une semaine (Jorge et Masur, 1985) et de 0,87 pour un intervalle de 19 à 40 jours (McMurran et Hollin, 1989).…”

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Trajectoires de l’usage de substances psychoactives chez les personnes lésées médullaires

Tétrault

Courtois²

2017

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Certains groupes sociaux afficheraient une plus forte prévalence de consommation de substances psychoactives que la population générale, comme c’est le cas pour les personnes ayant subi une blessure à la moelle épinière. Le premier objectif de cet article est d’évaluer la prévalence d’usage d’alcool, de drogues illicites et de médicaments psychotropes chez les personnes lésées médullaires en fonction du type de consommateurs. Le second objectif est d’évaluer l’évolution de l’usage selon les périodes précédant la lésion, de réadaptation fonctionnelle et de retour à domicile. Un échantillon de 85 adultes avec une lésion à la moelle épinière présentement au retour à domicile a été interviewé entre 2007 et 2008 à l’aide de la grille de dépistage/évaluation du besoin d’aide-Alcool et Drogues. Les résultats montrent que le nombre de consommateurs à haut risque d’alcool diminue de manière significative de la période précédant la lésion médullaire à celle du retour à domicile. Les résultats ne se sont pas avérés significatifs pour la consommation de drogues et de médicaments sédatifs. Les résultats sur la consommation réduite de SPA durant la période de réadaptation fonctionnelle soulèvent la nécessité de motiver les institutions à rester vigilantes sur la consommation de leurs bénéficiaires LM et les médecins sur leurs prescriptions de médicaments.

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“…Three parts of the questionnaire were Sociodemographic, General health and Alcohol profile, SADD Questionnaire and WHO QoL -BREF26 Questionnaire. 6 After getting approval from institutional ethics committee, the Commissioner, City health officer of the Corporation of Chennai and The Director of Communicable Diseases Hospital, Tondiarpet. The study population were explained about the study, confidentiality, their rights to participate, not to participate or quit from the study during the period of study and got the informed consent from all the participants.…”

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Assessment of quality of life in alcohol dependents taking treatment in government de-addiction centre, Chennai

Selvaraj

Duraimurugan

2018

Int J Community Med Public Health

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INTRODUCTIONHeavy alcohol drinking is a major public health problem in most of the developing countries.1 Alcohol dependence is the second most common psychiatric condition. Each year, about 3.3 million deaths is caused by alcohol consumption and this is the main causal factor for about 200 various diseases that contributes about 5.9% deaths. 2As per WHO, 2010 report total global consumption was equal to 6.2 litre per person aged more than 15 years.Alcohol consumption is continuously increasing in our country and the percentage of alcohol dependents also constantly increasing. Nowadays, alcohol dependency is a very big social issue and personal threat in many societies.3 Socio cultural factors, influence of genetic and biological predisposition contribute to alcohol dependence. Alcohol dependence leads to many complications like GIT, CNS complications, malnutrition and social complications like occupational problems criminality, financial problems etc. The overall quality of ABSTRACT Background: Heavy alcohol drinking is a major public health problem in most of the developing countries. Each year about 3.3 million deaths is caused by alcohol consumption and this is the main causal factor for about 200 various diseases that contributes about 5.9% deaths. Quality of life (QoL) is affected in alcohol dependents significantly. This study was conducted to determine the QoL of alcohol dependent patients in government de-addiction centre and to study the factors associated with the QoL of alcohol dependents. Methods: Across sectional study done using validated semi structured questionnaire contains sociodemographic details, SADD and WHO QoL-BREF-26 questionnaire. Results: Almost half of the participants (46.7%) were less than 30 years old. The major portion of the participants (70%) belonged to the lower class. Almost half of them (46.6%) were either unmarried or separated. Major portion of the participants of the study population are having medium (46.67%) and high level (40%) of dependence. Around 83.3%of the participants were affected by any one of the psychiatric co-morbidities. Around 2/3 rd of participants (66.7%) are started to work before the legal age to work. Half of the alcohol dependents (53.33%) having family members with harmful alcohol intake behaviour. The mean baseline score of QoL of study subjects were compared to the mean scores of the healthy individuals. Conclusions: The QoL is the most valuable tool for the interventional management and designing the management programme. Around 80% of the study population are literate and 90% of the study population having good intention towards recovery.

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Development of a Questionnaire to Measure Alcohol Dependence

Abstract: This paper is an interim report describing the development of a 15-item, self-completion questionnaire designed to measure Alcohol Dependence. Some measures of reliability are also presented.

Cited by 260 publications

References 14 publications

Factors affecting agreement between severely mentally ill alcohol abusers' and collaterals' reports of alcohol and other substance abuse.

Factors affecting agreement between severely mentally ill alcohol abusers' and collaterals' reports of alcohol and other substance abuse.

Trajectoires de l’usage de substances psychoactives chez les personnes lésées médullaires

Assessment of quality of life in alcohol dependents taking treatment in government de-addiction centre, Chennai

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