WORKPLACE DRUG USE PREVALENCE ESTIMATION METHODS

该项目旨在测试主观(自我报告)和 客观的(化学测试)评估流行的方法 劳动力滥用药物。这项研究将对比几个主观因素 根据尿检进行客观评估的药物使用报告， 雇用一家大公司的合作(西屋电气与其 员工和申请者作为主体)，以开发有效、有效的 评估药物和酒精滥用流行率的方法和指南 在工业上。此研究满足NIDA的关键要求(回复： 公告编号DA-87-26)“...开发和利用有效和可靠的 评估药物使用的发生率和流行率的方法 工作场所。在可能的情况下，药物的使用应由 适当地测量体液中的水平。 本研究的具体目标是：测试主观(自我 报告)评估求职者滥用药物的方法和 在职员工(测试方法包括自我管理 问卷(SAQ)和个人访谈，现场和 非现场和电话采访)；验证主观评估 违反化学测试客观标准的技术； 确定毒品使用的二分法之间的关系 由化学测试产生的药物和更详细的描述 和酒精使用模式和情况；以产生准确的 对一家大型医院员工滥用药物流行率的估计 工作站点；提供有关员工滥用药物的数据库， 用于未来的研究；并开发有效、有效的 评估药物和酒精滥用的方法和指南 在工业中普遍存在。 整体研究设计结合了经典的标准效度设计 (以尿检结果为标准)具有严格的实验 对比主观评价方法。数据将在以下位置收集 共有1800名工人(900名求职者和900名在职人员 员工)。将对900名求职者进行详尽的抽样； 在职员工将在以下时间从劳动力中随机抽样 三个站点；25%的随机抽样将提供所需的样本大小 在每个站点。自我报告数据和尿液分析数据将是 进行了几种类型的分析。

This project is intended to test both subjective (self-report) and objective (chemical testing) methods of assessing the prevalence of workforce drug abuse. The research will contrast several subjective reports of drug use with objective assessments based on urinalysis, employing the cooperation of a large company (Westinghouse with its employees and applicants as subjects) to develop valid, effective methods and guidelines for estimating drug and alcohol abuse prevalence in industry. This research meets a critical NIDA requirement (re: Announcement No. DA-87-26) "...to develop and utilize valid and reliable methods of assessing incidence and prevalence of drug use at the workplace ... where possible, drug usage should be documented by appropriate measures of levels in body fluids." The specific objectives of the research are: to test subjective (self- report) methods of assessing substance abuse among job applicants and in-service employees (methods to be tested include self-administered questionnaires (SAQ) and personal interviews, collected both on-site and off-site, and telephone interviews); to validate subjective assessment techniques against the objective criterion of chemical testing; to determine the relationship between the dichotomous measure of drug use produced by chemical testing and the more detailed descriptions of drug and alcohol use patterns and circumstances; to produce accurate estimates of the prevalence of drug abuse among employees at a major worksite; to provide a data base on employee substance abuse that can be used for future research studies; and to develop valid, effective methods and guidelines for use in estimating drug and alcohol abuse prevalence in industry. The overall research design combines a classic criterion validity design (with urinalysis results as the criterion) with a rigorous experimental contrast the subjective assessment methods. Data is to be collected on a total of 1800 workers (900 job applicants and 900 in-service employees). The 900 job applicants will be sampled exhaustively; the in-service employees will be randomly sampled from the workforce at three sites; a 25% radom sample will provide the sample sizes required at each site. The self-report data and the urinalysis data will be subjected to several types of analysis.