Faculty Articles
Relationships between Clinical Judgment, Self-Report and Breath Analysis Measures of Intoxication in Alcoholics
ORCID
0000-0001-7705-3993
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
ISSN
0022-006X
Publication Date
2-1979
Abstract
Three studies comparing alcoholics' self-reports, observers' ratings, and breath-test determinations of alcohol intoxication found that (a) alcoholics' self-reports of their recent drinking were valid when they had not been drinking; (b) when they had been drinking, their self-reports were frequently invalid and underreported; (c) incidence of discrepant self-reports was not a function of level of intoxication; and (d) trained observers could identify only 50% to 67% of the subjects who were intoxicated but gave invalid self-reports. Breath analysis for blood alcohol concentration should be a mandatory component of alcohol treatment programs and alcohol treatment outcome evaluations.
DOI
10.1037/0022-006X.47.1.204
Volume
47
Issue
1
First Page
204
Last Page
206
NSUWorks Citation
Sobell, M. B.,
Sobell, L. C.,
VanderSpek, R.
(1979). Relationships between Clinical Judgment, Self-Report and Breath Analysis Measures of Intoxication in Alcoholics. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 47(1), 204-206.
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