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ArticleDrug and alcohol dependence2013

Stability of scores and correlations with drinking behaviors over 15 years for the Self-Report of the Effects of Alcohol Questionnaire.

Marc A Schuckit, Tom L Smith

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Article in Drug and alcohol dependence, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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19citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Marc A SchuckitUniversity of California, San Diego, Department of Psychiatry, 8950 Villa La Jolla Drive, Suite B-218, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA. mschuckit@ucsd.edu
Tom L Smith
University of California, San Diego · US

Funding

REACTIONS TO DEPRESSANTS IN SONS OF ALCSR01AA005526 · NIAAA · VETERANS MEDICAL RESEARCH FDN/SAN DIEGO · PI SCHUCKIT, MARC A · 1986 to 2010
$4.1M
NIAAA NIH HHS R01 AA005526
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe low level of response (LR) to alcohol is an endophenotype that predicts future heavy drinking and alcohol use disorders (AUDs). LR can be measured by laboratory-based alcohol challenges or by the retrospective Self-Report of the Effects of Alcohol (SRE) questionnaire. This paper reports the relationships among these two measures and how each related to both recent and future drinking quantities and problems across 15 years in 235 men.

methodsProbands from the San Diego Prospective Study (SDPS) participated in alcohol challenges to determine their LR at age 20, and subsequently at ages 35, 40, 45 and 50 filled out an SRE regarding the number of standard drinks needed for up to four effects early in life (SRE5) and across early, recent, and heaviest drinking life epochs (SRET). Changes in SRE scores across time were evaluated with ANOVAs and Pearson correlations were used to evaluate how SRE5, SRET and earlier alcohol challenge-based LRs related to prior five-year drinking histories and future alcohol involvement.

resultsWhile SRE scores decreased 9% over the 15 years, the relationships between SRE values with prior five-year drinking parameters and with future alcohol intake and problems remained robust, and even improved with advancing age. A similar pattern was seen for correlations between SRE and alcohol challenge-based LRs 15-30 years previously.

conclusionsAlcohol challenge and SRE-based LRs related to each other, to alcohol use patterns, and to future alcohol problems across age 35-50 in the men studied here.

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Self ReportAdultAlcohol DrinkingAnalysis of VarianceDrinking BehaviorHumansLongitudinal StudiesMaleMiddle AgedPredictive Value of TestsReproducibility of ResultsSurveys and Questionnaires

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PMID22980675
PMCPMC3537846
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