A brief readiness to change drinking algorithm: Concurrent validity in female VA primary care patients
| Autor: | Dorcas J. Dobie, Amee J. Epler, Katharine A. Bradley, Daniel R. Kivlahan, Kristen R. Bush |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Alcohol Drinking Concurrent validity Psychological intervention Medicine (miscellaneous) Alcohol abuse Poison control Toxicology Surveys and Questionnaires Humans Medicine Veterans Affairs Motivation Primary Health Care business.industry Behavior change Reproducibility of Results Human factors and ergonomics medicine.disease Alcoholism Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Military Personnel Scale (social sciences) Female sense organs business Attitude to Health Algorithm Algorithms |
| Zdroj: | Addictive Behaviors. 30:389-395 |
| ISSN: | 0306-4603 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.addbeh.2004.05.015 |
| Popis: | Brief primary care interventions for alcohol use should be tailored to patients' readiness to change; however, validated measures of readiness to change are too lengthy to be practical in most primary care settings. We compared a readiness to change drinking algorithm (RTC Algorithm) based on three standardized questions to a validated 12-item readiness to change questionnaire (Rollnick RTCQ) in 85 hazardous drinking female Veterans Affairs (VA) patients. Results from comparisons of mean Rollnick RTCQ scale scores across RTC Algorithm categories suggest good concurrent validity. Regular assessment using the RTC Algorithm questions may help primary care providers tailor alcohol-related discussions with hazardous drinking patients. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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