@article{ref1,
title="Measuring alcohol consumption: a comparison of the retrospective diary and the quantity-frequency methods in a college drinking survey",
journal="Journal of studies on alcohol",
year="1991",
author="O'Hare, T.",
volume="52",
number="5",
pages="500-502",
abstract="As part of a larger study of college drinking, the quantity-frequency (Q-F) measure of alcohol consumption was compared to the retrospective diary (RD) method with 494 drinkers out of 606 respondents (75.8%) of 800 randomly selected undergraduates. Respondents were representative by sex and year in school of virtually all full-time undergraduates at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. The study tested the hypothesis that the RD would yield higher estimates of average alcohol consumption and of &quot;heavy drinking&quot; as defined by NIAAA typology (average two or more drinks per day) and of &quot;peak drinking,&quot; a Q-F standard consisting of five or more drinks at least once per week. The study also compared the two methods as correlates of self-reported problems related to drinking. Results supported the major hypotheses that the RD would detect more overall consumption, heavy drinking and peak drinking than the Q-F. Results also demonstrated good consistency between the Q-F and RD as well as comparable correlations with the alcohol problem score.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0096-882X",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}