ReviewAddiction (Abingdon, England)2008
Alcohol measurement methodology in epidemiology: recent advances and opportunities.
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172 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Magnitude and determinants of alcohol use disorder among adult population in East Asian countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2023Pooled it
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- Patient-level interventions to reduce alcohol-related harms in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-summary.PLoS medicine · 2022Pooled it
- A systematic review of self-report measures used in epidemiological studies to assess alcohol consumption among older adults.PloS one · 2021Pooled it
- Association Between Alcohol Consumption and Risk of Bladder Cancer: A Dose-Response Meta-Analysis of Prospective Cohort Studies.Frontiers in oncology · 2021Pooled it
- New alcohol-related genes suggest shared genetic mechanisms with neuropsychiatric disorders.Nature human behaviour · 2019Pooled it
- Alcohol research with transgender populations: A systematic review and recommendations to strengthen future studies.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2018Pooled it
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- The parent-child relationship and adolescent alcohol use: a systematic review of longitudinal studies.BMC public health · 2012Pooled it
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- Adjustments for drink size and ethanol content: new results from a self-report diary and transdermal sensor validation study.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2014Trial
- Economic loss and alcohol consumption and problems during the 2008 to 2009 U.S. recession.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2014Trial
- Matters of the Heart and Soul: The Mixed Impact of Religiosity and Spirituality on the Cardiovascular Risk Profile Over Time.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Alcohol consumption patterns and association with educational attainment in Europe: an analysis of the 2023-24 European Social Survey.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Associations of alcohol use in early and middle adulthood with mid- and late-life cognition - a synthetic cohort approach.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Measuring lifetime alcohol exposure: A scoping review and implications for translational research and alcohol-related harm.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2026Article
- Association of long-term alcohol consumption with DSA-defined concurrent intracranial and extracranial steno-occlusive involvement in acute ischemic stroke.Frontiers in neurology · 2026Article
- Feasibility of mHealth Strategies to Promote Use of Wrist-Worn Alcohol Biosensors Among Young Adults With HIV: Protocol for the Engage Microrandomized Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- A Preclinical Alcohol Biobank: Samples from Behaviorally Characterized HS Rats for AUD Research.eNeuro · 2025Article
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Abstract
aimTo review and discuss measurement issues in survey assessment of alcohol consumption for epidemiological studies.
methodsThe following areas are considered: implications of cognitive studies of question answering such as self-referenced schemata of drinking, reference period and retrospective recall, as well as the assets and liabilities of types of current (e.g. food frequency, quantity-frequency, graduated frequencies and heavy drinking indicators) and life-time drinking measures. Finally we consider units of measurement and improving measurement by detailing the ethanol content of drinks in natural settings. RESULTS AND
conclusionsCognitive studies suggest inherent limitations in the measurement enterprise, yet diary studies show promise of broadly validating methods that assess a range of drinking amounts per occasion; improvements in survey measures of drinking in the life course are indicated; attending in detail to on- and off-premise drink pour sizes and ethanol concentrations of various beverages shows promise of narrowing the coverage gap plaguing survey alcohol measurement.
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