Citation

Dawson DA, Room RGW. J. Subst. Abuse 2000; 12(1-2): 1-21.

Affiliation

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, Suite 514, Willco Building, 6000 Executive Boulevard, MSC 7003, Bethesda, MD 20892-7003, USA. ddawson@willco.niaaa.nih.gov

Copyright

(Copyright © 2000, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

11288465

Abstract

A thematic conference of the Kettil Bruun Society (KBS) for Social and Epidemiological Research on Alcohol was held in Skarpö, near Stockholm, on April 3-7, 2000. The goals of the meeting were to develop consensus sets of questionnaire items for measuring alcohol consumption and social harm, to delineate statistical and practical concerns related to the aggregation of consumption and harm data and to identify summary measures to be used for descriptive purposes and in analyses of the association between alcohol intake and alcohol-related outcomes. The results of the conference discussions are summarized below, with emphasis on both areas where the conference yielded recommendations for measures and methods of aggregation for analysis, and on areas where consensus could not be obtained and/or where additional research is needed.

Language: en