Reliability of a timeline method: assessing normal drinkers' reports of recent drinking and a comparative evaluation across several populations.
Reliability of a timeline method: assessing normal drinkers' reports of recent drinking and a comparative evaluation across several populations.
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时间线方法的可靠性：评估正常饮酒者最近饮酒的报告并对几个人群进行比较评估。
DOI：
10.1111/j.1360-0443.1988.tb00485.x
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发表时间：
1988
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通讯作者：
A. Cancilla
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作者：
L. Sobell;M. Sobell;G. Leo;A. Cancilla
总结
由于酒精研究涉及临床和非临床人群，因此评估不同受试者人群的饮酒评估方法非常重要。在过去的几年中，多项研究对收集近期饮酒回顾性报告的时间线（TL）方法的可靠性进行了评估，并且该方法已被证明对于门诊酗酒者、住院慢性酗酒者和正常饮酒的大学生普遍具有较高的可靠性。本研究检验了 TL 方法对一般人群中正常饮酒者的可靠性。与其他人群类似，正常饮酒者的男性（n=31）和女性（n=31）近期饮酒行为报告的重测信度普遍较高。还将通过 TL 方法收集的数据与使用常见数量频率 (QF) 方法从同一受试者收集的数据进行比较。与早期的报告一致，与 TL 派生的数据相比，QF 分类提供了对饮酒行为个体差异的相对不敏感的测量。由于 TL 方法现已被证明对于评估广泛饮酒者近期饮酒情况具有相当好的可靠性，因此它可用于对不同受试者群体的研究中的饮酒行为进行比较评估。
Summary
Since alcohol research involves both clinical and non-clinical populations, it is important to evaluate drinking assessment methods across different subject populations. Over the past several years, the reliability of the timeline (TL) method of gathering retrospective reports of recent drinking has been evaluated in several studies, and this method has been shown to have generally high reliability with outpatient alcohol abusers, in-patient chronic alcoholics, and normal drinker college students. The present study examined the reliability of the TL method with normal drinkers in the general population. Similar to other populations, the test-retest reliability of male (n=31) and female (n=31) normal drinkers' reports of recent drinking behaviour was found to be generally high. Data gathered by the TL method were also compared to data gathered from the same subjects using a common quantity-frequency (QF) method. Consistent with earlier reports, QF categorization provided a relatively insensitive measure of individual differences in drinking behaviour as compared to TL-derived data. 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.