Temporal stability of the timeline followback interview for alcohol and drug use with psychiatric outpatients
Temporal stability of the timeline followback interview for alcohol and drug use with psychiatric outpatients
复制标题
DOI:
10.15288/jsa.2004.65.774
复制
发表时间:
2004-11-01
期刊:
影响因子:
--
通讯作者:
Henson, JM
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
Carey, KB;Carey, MP;Henson, JM
Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the test-retest reliability of the Timeline Followback (TLFB) interview for assessing daily alcohol and drug use with adults living with a severe mental illness. Method: Participants were 132 psychiatric outpatients (64% men) with a confirmed schizophrenia-spectrum (52%) or major mood disorder (48%) and a lifetime history of substance use disorder. They completed a 90-day TUB twice, separated by a mean of 5 days, and represented 55% of the participants who originally consented to be in the study. Results: Test-retest reliability coefficients ranged from 0.73 to 1.00 (rounded) for 30-day TLFB and from 0.77 to 1.00 (rounded) for the 90-day TLFB. Within-subject comparisons of means across the three 30-day windows revealed no significant differences, and no degradation of the magnitude of the reliability coefficients was observed with increasingly distant assessment periods. Conclusions: The TLFB is a reliable method of assessing alcohol and drug use in outpatients diagnosed with severe mental illness.