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Item Responses in Quantity-Frequency Questionnaires: Implications for Data Generalizability.

Jordan E Stevens, Emilie Shireman, Douglas Steinley, Thomas M Piasecki, Daniel Vinson, Kenneth J Sher

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Article in Assessment, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. A technology-based intervention to reduce alcohol use after metabolic and bariatric surgery: feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary outcomes.Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery · 2025
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  7. Putting things in context: Longitudinal relations between drinking contexts, drinking motives, and negative alcohol consequences.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Jordan E StevensUniversity of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0269-7708
Emilie ShiremanUniversity of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.
Douglas SteinleyUniversity of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.
Thomas M PiaseckiUniversity of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.
Daniel VinsonUniversity of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.
Kenneth J SherUniversity of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.

Funding

Psychology of Alcohol Use and Dependence TrainingT32AA013526 · NIAAA · UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA · PI DENIS M MCCARTHY, KENNETH JAMES SHER · 2002 to 2026
$9.0M
Alcohol and Adult Development: Understanding Etiology and ConsequencesK05AA017242 · NIAAA · UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA · PI SHER, KENNETH JAMES · 2007 to 2016
$2.1M
Refining the Diagnosis of Alcohol Use Disorder: A Comprehensive ApproachR01AA024133 · NIAAA · UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA · PI SHER, KENNETH JAMES, STEINLEY, DOUGLAS L · 2015 to 2018
$2.1M
NIAAA NIH HHS K05 AA017242NIAAA NIH HHS R01 AA024133NIAAA NIH HHS T32 AA013526
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alcohol consumption is an important predictor of a variety of negative outcomes. There is an extensive literature that examines the differences in the estimated level of alcohol consumption between types of assessments (e.g., quantity-frequency [QF] questionnaires, daily diaries). However, it is typically assumed that all QF-based measures are nearly identical in their assessment of the volume of alcohol consumption in a population. Using timeline follow-back data and constructing common QF consumption measures, we examined differences among survey instruments to assess alcohol consumption and heavy drinking. Using three data sets, including clinical to community samples, we demonstrate how scale-specific item characteristics (i.e., number of response options and ranges of consumption assessed by each option) can substantially affect the estimated mean level of consumption and estimated prevalence of binge drinking. Our analyses suggest that problems can be mitigated by employing more resolved measures of quantity and frequency in consumption questionnaires.

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Alcohol DrinkingHumansSurveys and Questionnairesalcohol consumptionmeasurementquantity–frequencytimeline follow-back

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PMID31238706
PMCPMC8351754

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