Self-reported alcohol intake using two different question formats in southeastern New England.
Self-reported alcohol intake using two different question formats in southeastern New England.
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在新英格兰东南部使用两种不同的问题格式自我报告酒精摄入量。
DOI：
10.1093/ije/25.4.770
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发表时间：
1996
影响因子：
7.7
通讯作者：
Carleton,RA
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作者：
Parker,DR;Derby,CA;Usner,DW;Gonzalez,S;Lapane,KL;Carleton,RA
背景：在人口研究中，酒精摄入量的定量测量并不总是可用的。方法评价普通健康调查中嵌入的酒精摄入量问题是否可以作为酒精摄入量的替代指标。在基于人群的样本中，我们比较了用食物频率问卷（FFQ）评估的酒精摄入量和用简单的二分法调查问题评估的酒精摄入量。结果研究人群包括来自美国新英格兰东南部两个社区的755名男性和1164名女性。对于不饮酒者的分类，两个酒精问题之间有很强的一致性（98.1%）。当参与者根据FFQ上的饮酒量进行分类时，识别饮酒者的简单问题的能力以剂量反应的方式提高了。低、中、高饮酒者的Kappa统计值分别为0.08 （P< 0.001）、0.38 （P< 0.001）和0.81 （P< 0.001）。这些结果表明，调查酒精问题提供了一种有用的定性措施，可以对不饮酒者进行分类，并确定每天饮酒超过一杯的饮酒者。在可能无法获得酒精摄入量定量测量的人口研究中，当酒精摄入量可能混淆结果时，调查酒精问题可能是有用的，需要对数据进行调整。
BackgroundQuantitative measures of alcohol intake are not always available in population studies.MethodsThe authors evaluated whether a question on alcohol intake embedded within a general health survey could be used as a surrogate marker for alcohol intake. We compared alcohol intake assessed with a food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) with alcohol intake assessed with a simple dichotomous survey question in a population-based sample.ResultsThe study population consisted of 755 men and 1164 women from two communities in southeastern New England in the USA. There was strong agreement between the two alcohol questions for the classification of nondrinkers (98.1%). When participants were classified according to the quantity of alcohol consumed on the FFQ, the ability of the simple question to Identify drinkers Improved in a dose-response fashion. The Kappa statistic was 0.08 (P< 0.001), 0.38 (P< 0.001), and 0.81 (P< 0.001) for low, medium, and high consumers of alcohol, respectively.ConclusionsThese results suggest that the survey alcohol question provides a useful qualitative measure of categorizing nondrinkers and identifying drinkers who consume more than one drink per day. In population studies where quantitative measures of alcohol intake may not be available a survey alcohol question may prove useful when alcohol intake is likely to confound results, and adjustment of the data is needed.