@article{ref1,
title="Temporal stability of the timeline followback interview for alcohol and drug use with psychiatric outpatients",
journal="Journal of studies on alcohol",
year="2004",
author="Carey, Kate B. and Carey, Michael P. and Maisto, Stephen A. and Henson, James M.",
volume="65",
number="6",
pages="774-781",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the test-retest reliability of the Timeline Followback (TLFB) interview for assessing daily alcohol and drug use with adults living with a severe mental illness. METHOD: Participants were 132 psychiatric outpatients (64% men) with a confirmed schizophrenia-spectrum (52%) or major mood disorder (48%) and a lifetime history of substance use disorder. They completed a 90-day TLFB twice, separated by a mean of 5 days, and represented 55% of the participants who originally consented to be in the study. RESULTS: Test-retest reliability coefficients ranged from 0.73 to 1.00 (rounded) for 30-day TLFB and from 0.77 to 1.00 (rounded) for the 90-day TLFB. Within-subject comparisons of means across the three 30-day windows revealed no significant differences, and no degradation of the magnitude of the reliability coefficients was observed with increasingly distant assessment periods. CONCLUSIONS: The TLFB is a reliable method of assessing alcohol and drug use in outpatients diagnosed with severe mental illness.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0096-882X",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}