An experimental study of the agreement of self-administration and telephone administration of the timeline followback interview
An experimental study of the agreement of self-administration and telephone administration of the timeline followback interview
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DOI：
10.15288/jsad.2008.69.468
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发表时间：
2008-05-01
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Justice, Amy C.
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作者：
Maisto, Stephen A.;Conigliaro, Joseph C.;Justice, Amy C.
目的：Timeline Followback(TLFB)访谈已经成为收集日常饮酒回顾自我报告的最新技术。这类数据特别有助于在事件层面上解决饮酒数量与其他行为(如与艾滋病毒有关的危险性行为)同时出现的问题。这项研究的目的是确定在一项针对HIV阳性和HIV阴性成年人的大型多地点观察性研究中，与更昂贵的电话采访相比，TLFB是否可以通过自我管理有效地使用。方法：采用实验设计在退伍军人老龄化队列研究的一个子样本(N=70)中比较自我管理和电话管理的TLFB模式，这是一项正在进行的纵向研究，对象是在8个退伍军人事务部传染病或普通内科诊所就诊的6000多名HIV阳性和HIV阴性的男性和女性。参与者被随机分配到由TLFB给药方式和顺序定义的四个试验组中的一个，在一周内发生两次：电话-电话、电话-自我、自我电话和自我。结果：分析表明，在TLFB给药模式或给药顺序之间，报告的饮料总数的中位数没有差异。同样的发现也适用于将参与者归类为“危险”饮酒者。其他分析表明，两种TLFB管理模式的自我报告的重测信度都达到了极好的水平。结论：这项研究的数据提供了强有力的实验证据，证明在HIV阳性和HIV阴性的大型观察性研究中，自我管理的30天TLFB在收集每日酒精摄入量方面的有效性。
Objective: The Timeline Followback (TLFB) interview has become state-of-the-science for the collection of retrospective selfreports of daily alcohol consumption. Such data are especially useful for addressing questions of the co-occurrence of quantity of alcohol consumption and other behaviors, such as HIV-related risky sex, on the event level. The purpose of this study was to determine if the TLFB could be used effectively by self-administration compared with the more costly telephone interview in a large, multisite observational study of HIV-positive and HIV-negative adults. Method: An experimental design was used to compare self-administered and telephone-administered TLFB modes in a subsample (N = 70) of the Veterans Aging Cohort Study, an ongoing longitudinal study of more than 6,000 HIV-positive and HIV-negative men and women presenting for treatment at eight Department of Veterans Affairs Infectious Disease or General Medicine clinics. Participants were randomly assigned to one of four experimental groups defined by mode and sequence of a TLFB administration on two occasions occurring within 1 week: telephone-telephone, telephone-self, self-telephone, and self-self. Results: Analyses showed no differences in median total number of drinks reported between modes of TLFB administration or sequence of mode of administration. The same findings held for classification of participants as "hazardous" drinkers. Additional analyses showed good-to-excel lent test-retest reliability of self-reports for both modes of TLFB administration. Conclusions: The data derived from this study provide strong experimental evidence for the utility of the self-administered, 30-day TLFB in collecting daily alcohol consumption in large observational studies of HIV-positive and HIV-negative individuals.