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Reliability of a retrospective decade-based life-course alcohol consumption questionnaire administered in later life.

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cam.issuedOnline2015-07-14
dc.contributor.authorBell, Steven
dc.contributor.authorBritton, Annie
dc.contributor.orcidBell, Steven [0000-0001-6774-3149]
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-08T00:31:18Z
dc.date.available2018-12-08T00:31:18Z
dc.date.issued2015-10
dc.description.abstractBACKGROUND AND AIMS: Retrospective measures of alcohol intake are becoming increasingly popular; however, the reliability of such measures remains uncertain. This study assessed the reliability of a retrospective decade-based life-course alcohol consumption questionnaire, based on the standardized Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test-Consumption (AUDIT-C) administered in older age in a well-characterized cohort study. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS AND MEASUREMENTS: A retrospective alcohol life-grid was administered to 5980 participants (72% male, mean age 70 years) in the Whitehall II study covering frequency of drinking, number of drinks in a typical drinking day and frequency of consuming six or more drinks in a single drinking occasion in the teens (16-19 years) through to the 80s. A subsample of 385 individuals completed a repeat survey to determine test-retest reliability. Retrospective measures were also compared with prospectively ascertained information and used to predict objectively measured systolic blood pressure to test their predictive validity. FINDINGS: Across all decades of life, test-retest reliability was generally good (κ range = 0.62-0.78 for frequency, 0.55-0.62 for usual number of drinks and 0.57-0.65 for frequency of consuming six or more drinks in a single occasion). The concordance between prospective and retrospective measures was consistently moderate to high. The life-grid method performed better than a single question in identifying life-time abstainers. Retrospective measures were also related to systolic blood pressure in the manner anticipated. CONCLUSION: A retrospective decade-based AUDIT-C grid administered in older age provides a relatively reliable measure of alcohol consumption across the life-course.
dc.format.mediumPrint-Electronic
dc.identifier.doi10.17863/CAM.33851
dc.identifier.eissn1360-0443
dc.identifier.issn0965-2140
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/286541
dc.languageeng
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherWiley
dc.publisher.urlhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1111/add.13012
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectAlcohol
dc.subjectblood pressure
dc.subjectcross-sectional cohort
dc.subjectlife-course
dc.subjectlongitudinal
dc.subjectmeasurement
dc.subjectreliability, AUDIT-C
dc.subjectretrospective
dc.subjectAged
dc.subjectAlcohol Drinking
dc.subjectBinge Drinking
dc.subjectBlood Pressure
dc.subjectFemale
dc.subjectHumans
dc.subjectMale
dc.subjectMental Recall
dc.subjectProspective Studies
dc.subjectReproducibility of Results
dc.subjectRetrospective Studies
dc.subjectSelf Report
dc.subjectSurveys and Questionnaires
dc.titleReliability of a retrospective decade-based life-course alcohol consumption questionnaire administered in later life.
dc.typeArticle
dcterms.dateAccepted2015-05-09
prism.endingPage1573
prism.issueIdentifier10
prism.publicationDate2015
prism.publicationNameAddiction
prism.startingPage1563
prism.volume110
pubs.funder-project-idMedical Research Council (MR/M006638/1)
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2015-10
rioxxterms.licenseref.urihttp://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved
rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Review
rioxxterms.versionVoR
rioxxterms.versionofrecord10.1111/add.13012

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