TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - Validating a hazardous drinking index in a sample of sexual minority women: reliability, validity, and predictive accuracy
JO  - Substance use and misuse
A1  - Riley, Barth B.
A1  - Hughes, Tonda L.
A1  - Wilsnack, Sharon C.
A1  - Johnson, Timothy P.
A1  - Benson, Perry
A1  - Aranda, Frances
SP  - 43
EP  - 51
VL  - 52
IS  - 1
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1082-6084
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10826084.2016.1214150
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