A Quick Drinking Screen for Identifying Women at Risk for an Alcohol-Exposed Pregnancy.

Author(s)

Marium Dum, Nova Southeastern University
Linda C. Sobell, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow
Mark B. Sobell, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow
N. Heinecke
A. Voluse
K. JohnsonFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Addiction Behaviors

ISSN

0306-4603

Publication Date

9-2009

Abstract

Two previous studies comparing the Quick Drinking Screen (QDS) with the Timeline Followback (TLFB) found that these two instruments yielded similar reports of alcohol use for clinical and nonclinical populations of problem drinkers. The current study evaluated the correspondence between these two drinking measures with women at risk of an Alcohol-Exposed Pregnancy (AEP). Participants were 355 women who voluntarily participated in a research study during 2005 through 2007 designed to prevent AEPs. All women were screened by phone for eligibility using the QDS and approximately 2 weeks later completed a 3-month TLFB by mail. Results of this study, analyzed in 2008, paralleled previous studies showing that the QDS and the TLFB, two very different drinking measures, collected similar aggregate drinking data for women who drink heavily and are at risk of an AEP. Correspondence between the two drinking measures met acceptable levels of reliability. The present study found that the QDS has demonstrated efficacy for screening women whose level of alcohol use puts them at risk for an AEP. Although the QDS does not yield detailed drinking information, it could be used when it is not possible or necessary to gather daily drinking data.

DOI

10.1016/j.addbeh.2009.04.001

Volume

34

Issue

9

First Page

714

Last Page

716

NSUWorks Citation

Dum, M., Sobell, L. C., Sobell, M. B., Heinecke, N., Voluse, A., Johnson, K. (2009). A Quick Drinking Screen for Identifying Women at Risk for an Alcohol-Exposed Pregnancy.. Addiction Behaviors, 34(9), 714-716.
Available at: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cps_facarticles/78