Citation

Shope JT, Copeland LA, Dielman TE. Alcohol Clin. Exp. Res. 1994; 18(3): 726-733.

Affiliation

University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, Ann Arbor 48109-2150.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7943683

Abstract

In following a cohort of students from grade 6 through grade 12 for the purpose of evaluating an Alcohol Misuse Prevention Study curriculum, a substudy of the measurement of alcohol use and misuse was conducted. The 6-year follow-up of young people over time afforded a good opportunity to assess the adequacy of the initially chosen measures to 1) provide data with statistically desirable properties, and 2) be sensitive to and representative of the wide range of alcohol use and misuse patterns among adolescents as they mature. Revised measures of alcohol use and misuse were developed from the data responding to the same questionnaire items that had been used throughout the study. The revised measures demonstrated good psychometric properties and may be useful in other studies.

Language: en