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Abstract
Aims: The objective of this report was to determine if a context‐related drinking assessment would aid in the prediction of alcohol problems and alcohol dependence beyond the information provided by more general quantity/frequency measures.
Methods: Individuals were recruited from a study on bar violence (n = 637). In addition to a general quantity/frequency assessment of alcohol consumption, participants were asked to report their usual quantity and frequency of consumption in the past year at eight different situations. The context‐related measure was compared to the more general quantity/frequency assessment in terms of similarities between the assessments and their relation to measures of alcohol problems and dependence.
Findings: Both assessment techniques were highly correlated to each other and to all measures of alcohol problems and dependence. Among men, the context‐related assessment was significantly associated with alcohol problems and dependence, and it provided unique information beyond the general quantity/frequency measure. Among women, the context‐related measures provided no additional information.
Conclusions: For men, the addition of a context‐related drinking assessment to a more general quantity/frequency measure of consumption provides additional information about the relation between alcohol consumption and certain alcohol‐related problems.
Acknowledgements
The research for this manuscript was supported by grant R01 AA10617 to KEL and RLC from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. A portion of this report was presented at the Research Society on Alcoholism Annual Conference in June 2004 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.