Reproducibility of two approaches for assessing alcohol consumption among older adults

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 373-385

  Crum, Rosa M ^a,b   Puddey, Ian ^c   Gee, Gilbert C ^d   Fried, Linda ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN FLINT   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Elderly; Measurement; Questionnaire

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347933453     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1606635021000010289     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Atkinson, R.M. (1990). Aging and alcohol use disorders: diagnostic issues in the elderly. Int. Psychogeriatr., 2, 55-72.
2. Brody, J.A. (1982). Aging and alcohol abuse. J. Am. Geriatr. Soc., 30, 123-126.
3. Buchsbaum, D.G., Buchanan, R.G., Welsh, J., Centor, R.M. and Schnoll, S.H. (1992). Screening for drinking disorders in the elderly using the CAGE questionnaire. J. Am. Geriatr. Soc., 40, 662-665.
4. Caetano, R. and Tam, T.W. (1995). Prevalence and correlates of DSM-IV and ICD-10 alcohol dependence: 1990 US National Alcohol Survey. Alcohol Alcohol., 30, 177-186.
5. Cumming, R.G. and Klineberg, R.J. (1994). A study of the reproducibility of long-term recall in the elderly. Epidemiology, 5, 116-119.
6. Czarnecki, D.M., Russell, M., Cooper, L.M. and Salter, D. (1990). Five-year reliability of self-reported alcohol consumption. J. Stud. Alcohol, 51, 68-76.
7. Dufour, M. and Fuller, R.K. (1995). Alcohol in the elderly. Ann. Rev. Med., 46, 123-132.
8. Dyer, A.R., Cutter, G.R., Liu, K., Armstrong, M.A., Friedman, G.D., Hughes, G.H., Dolce, J.J., Raczynski, J., Burke, G. and Manolio, T. (1990). Alcohol intake and blood pressure in young adults: The CARDIA study. J. Clin. Epidemiol., 43(3), 1-13.
9. Eaton, W.W., Kramer, M., Anthony, J.C., Dryman, A., Shapiro, S. and Locke, B.Z. (1989). The incidence of specific DIS/DSM-III mental disorders: data from the NIMH epidemiologic catchment area program. Acta Psychiatr. Scand., 79(79), 163-178.
10. Ewing, J.A. (1984). Detecting alcoholism. The CAGE questionnaire. JAMA, 252, 1905-1907.
11. Fink, A., Hays, R.D., Moore, A.A. and Beck, J.C. (1996) Alcohol-related problems in older persons. Determinants, consequences and screening. Arch. Int. Med., 156, 1150-1156.
12. Fleming, M.F., Manwell, L.B., Barry, K.L. and Johnson, K. (1996). At-risk drinking in an HMO primary care sample: prevalence and health policy implications. Am. J. Public Health, 88, 90-93.
13. Freund, G. (1982). The interaction of chronic alcohol consumption and aging on brain structure and function. Alcohol. Clin. Exp. Res., 6, 13-21.
14. Fried, L.P., Borhani, N.O., Enright, P., Furberg, C.D., Gardin, J.M., Kronmal, R.A., Kuller, L.H., Manolio, T.A., Mittelmark, M.B., Newman, A., O'Leary, D.H., Psaty, B., Rautaharju, P., Tracy, R.P. and Weiler, P.G. (1991). For the cardiovascular health study research group. The cardiovascular health study: design and rationale. Ann. Epidemiol., 1, 263-276.
15. Gomberg, E.S.L. (1995). Older women and alcohol. Use and abuse. Recent Dev. Alcohol., 12, 61-79.
16. Graham, K. (1986). Identifying and measuring alcohol abuse among the elderly: serious problems with existing instrumentation . J. Stud. Alcohol, 47, 322-326.
17. Grant, B.F., Harford, T.C., Dawson, D.A., Chou, P., Dufour, M. and Pickering, R. (1994). Prevalence of DSM-IV alcohol abuse and dependence: United States, 1992. Alcohol Health Res. World, 18, 243-248.
18. Hartford, J.T. and Samorajski, T. (1982). Alcoholism in the geriatric population. J. Am. Geriatr. Soc., 30, 18-24.
19. Heckbert, S.R., Longstreth, W.T., Psaty, B.M., Murros, K.E., Smith, N.L., Newman, A.B., Willamson, J.D., Bernick, C. and Furberg, C.D. (1997). The association of antihypertensive agents with MRI white matter findings and with modified mini-mental state examination in older adults. J. Am. Geriatr. Soc., 45, 1423-1433.
20. Helzer, J.E., Burnam, A. and McEvoy, L.T. (1991). Alcohol abuse and dependence. In: Robins, L.N. and Regier, D.A. (Eds.), Psychiatric Disorder in America, pp. 81-115. The Free Press, New York, NY.
21. Jones, T.V., Lindsey, B.A., Yount, P., Soltys, R. and Farani-Enayat, B. (1993). Alcoholism screening questionnaires: are they valid in elderly medical outpatients? J. Gen. Int. Med., 8, 674-678.
22. King, M. (1986). At risk drinking among general practice attenders: validation of the CAGE questionnaire. Psychol. Med., 16, 213-217.
23. Liberto, J.G., Oslin, D.W. and Ruskin, P.E. (1992). Alcoholism in older persons: a review of the literature. Hosp. Community Psychiatr., 43, 975-984.
24. Mayfield, D., McLeod, G. and Hall, P. (1974). The CAGE questionnaire: validation of new alcoholism screening instrument. Am. J. Psychiatr., 131, 1121-1123.
25. Newman, A.B., Enright, P.L., Manolio, T.A., Haponik, E.F. and Wahl, P.W. (1997). On behalf of the cardiovascular health study research group. Sleep disturbance, psycho-social correlates, and cardiovascular disease in 5201 older adults: the cardiovascular health study. J. Am. Geriatr., 45, 1-7.
26. Polich, J.M. (1982). The validity of self-reports in alcoholism research. Addict. Behav., 72, 123-132.
27. Reifler, B., Raskind, M. and Kethley, A. (1982). Psychiatric diagnoses among geriatric patients seen in an outreach program. J. Am. Geriatr. Soc., 30, 530-533.
28. Sobell, M.B., Sobell, L.C., Klajner, F., Pavan, D. and Basian, E. (1986). The reliability of a timeline method for assessing normal drinker college students' recent drinking history: utility for alcohol research. Addict. Behav., 11, 149-161.
29. Sobell, L.C., Sobell, M.B., Riley, D.M., Schuller, R., Pavan, D.S., Cancilla, A., Klajner, F. and Leo, G.I. (1988). The reliability of alcohol abusers' self-reports of drinking and life events that occurred in the distant past. J. Stud. Alcohol, 49, 225-232.
30. Stata Corporation. (1997). Stata Statistical Software, Release 5.0. College Station, Stata Corporation, Texas.
31. Tell, G.S., Fried, L.P., Hermanson, B., Manolio, T.A., Newman, A.B. and Borhani, N.O. (1993). For the cardiovascular health study (CHS) collaborative research group. Recruitment of adults 65 years and older as participants in the cardiovascular health Study. Ann. Epidemiol., 3, 358-366.
32. Welte, J.M. and Mirand, A.L. (1995). Drinking, problem drinking and life stressors in the elderly general population. J. Stud. Alcohol, 56, 67-73.
33. Werch, C.E. (1989). Quantity-frequency and diary measures of alcohol consumption for elderly drinkers. Int. J. Addict., 24, 859-865.