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Validating a Hazardous Drinking Index in a Sample of Sexual Minority Women: Reliability, Validity, and Predictive Accuracy.


ABSTRACT: Although sexual minority women (SMW) are at increased risk of hazardous drinking (HD), efforts to validate HD measures have yet to focus on this population.Validation of a 13-item Hazardous Drinking Index (HDI) in a large sample of SMW.Data were from 700 adult SMW (age 18-82) enrolled in the Chicago Health and Life Experiences of Women study. Criterion measures included counts of depressive symptoms and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, average daily and 30-day ethanol consumption, risky sexual behavior, and Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV) measures of alcohol abuse/dependence. Analyses included assessment of internal consistency, construction of receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves to predict alcohol abuse/dependence, and correlations between HDI and criterion measures. We compared the psychometric properties (diagnostic accuracy and correlates of hazardous drinking) of the HDI to the commonly used CAGE instrument.KR-20 reliability for the HDI was 0.80, compared to 0.74 for the CAGE. Predictive accuracy, as measured by the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve for alcohol abuse/dependence, was HDI: 0.89; CAGE: 0.84. The HDI evidenced the best predictive efficacy and tradeoff between sensitivity and specificity. Results supported the concurrent validity of the HDI measure.The Hazardous Drinking Index is a reliable and valid measure of hazardous drinking for sexual minority women.

SUBMITTER: Riley BB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5304983 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Validating a Hazardous Drinking Index in a Sample of Sexual Minority Women: Reliability, Validity, and Predictive Accuracy.

Riley Barth B BB   Hughes Tonda L TL   Wilsnack Sharon C SC   Johnson Timothy P TP   Benson Perry P   Aranda Frances F  

Substance use & misuse 20160923 1


<h4>Background</h4>Although sexual minority women (SMW) are at increased risk of hazardous drinking (HD), efforts to validate HD measures have yet to focus on this population.<h4>Objectives</h4>Validation of a 13-item Hazardous Drinking Index (HDI) in a large sample of SMW.<h4>Methods</h4>Data were from 700 adult SMW (age 18-82) enrolled in the Chicago Health and Life Experiences of Women study. Criterion measures included counts of depressive symptoms and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) s  ...[more]

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