@article{ref1,
title="Validating a hazardous drinking index in a sample of sexual minority women: reliability, validity, and predictive accuracy",
journal="Substance use and misuse",
year="2016",
author="Riley, Barth B. and Hughes, Tonda L. and Wilsnack, Sharon C. and Johnson, Timothy P. and Benson, Perry and Aranda, Frances",
volume="52",
number="1",
pages="43-51",
abstract="BACKGROUND: 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. <br><br>OBJECTIVES: Validation of a 13-item Hazardous Drinking Index (HDI) in a large sample of SMW. <br><br>METHODS: 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. <br><br>RESULTS: 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. <br><br>RESULTS supported the concurrent validity of the HDI measure. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: The Hazardous Drinking Index is a reliable and valid measure of hazardous drinking for sexual minority women.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1082-6084",
doi="10.1080/10826084.2016.1214150",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10826084.2016.1214150"
}