%0 Journal Article
%T Daily Telephone Monitoring Compared with Retrospective Recall of Alcohol Use among Patients in Early Recovery
%J American journal on addictions
%D 2011
%A Simpson, Tracy L.
%A Galloway, Christopher
%A Rosenthal, Christina F.
%A Bush, Kristen R.
%A McBride, Brittney
%A Kivlahan, Daniel R.
%V 20
%N 1
%P 63-68
%X Most studies comparing frequent self-monitoring protocols and retrospective assessments of alcohol use find good correspondence, but have excluded participants with significant comorbidity and/or social instability, and some have included abstainers. We evaluated the correspondence between measures of alcohol use based on daily interactive voice response (IVR) telephone monitoring and a 28-day modification of the Form-90 (Form-28). Participants were 25 outpatients with alcohol use disorder and significant PTSD symptomatology . Overall correlations between the IVR and Form-28 on days drinking and total standard drink units (SDUs) were strong for the entire sample and the subsample of drinkers (n = 7). Day-to-day correspondence between IVR and Form-28 was modest, but much stronger for the most recent week assessed than for the prior 3 weeks. Finally, the drinkers reported significantly greater total SDUs and heavy drinking days on the Form-28 than via IVR. The results indicate a need for further refinement of IVR methodology for treatment seeking populations as well as caution when retrospectively assessing drinking over time periods longer than a week among these individuals. (Am J Addict 2010;00:1-6).<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
%G en
%I John Wiley and Sons
%@ 1055-0496
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1521-0391.2010.00094.x