TY - JOUR
T1 - Methodology and Demographics of a Brief Adolescent Alcohol Screen Validation Study
AU - Bromberg, Julie R.
AU - Spirito, Anthony
AU - Chun, Thomas
AU - Mello, Michael J.
AU - Casper, T. Charles
AU - Ahmad, Fahd
AU - Bajaj, Lalit
AU - Brown, Kathleen M.
AU - Chernick, Lauren S.
AU - Cohen, Daniel M.
AU - Fein, Joel
AU - Horeczko, Tim
AU - Levas, Michael N.
AU - McAninch, Brett
AU - Monuteaux, Michael
AU - Mull, Colette C.
AU - Grupp-Phelan, Jackie
AU - Powell, Elizabeth C.
AU - Rogers, Alexander
AU - Shenoi, Rohit P.
AU - Suffoletto, Brian
AU - Vance, Cheryl
AU - Linakis, James G.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/11/1
Y1 - 2019/11/1
N2 - Objective The aim of this study was to determine the psychometric properties of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) 2-question alcohol screen within 16 Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network pediatric emergency departments. This article describes the study methodology, sample characteristics, and baseline outcomes of the NIAAA 2-question screen. Methods Participants included 12- to 17-year-olds treated in one of the participating pediatric emergency departments across the United States. After enrollment, a criterion assessment battery including the NIAAA 2-question screen and other measures of alcohol, drug use, and risk behavior was self-administered by participants on a tablet computer. Two subsamples were derived from the sample. The first subsample was readministered the NIAAA 2-question screen 1 week after their initial visit to assess test-retest reliability. The second subsample is being reassessed at 12 and 24 months to examine predictive validity of the NIAAA 2-question screen. Results There were 4834 participants enrolled into the study who completed baseline assessments. Participants were equally distributed across sex and age. Forty-six percent of the participants identified as white, and 26% identified as black. Approximately one quarter identified as Hispanic. Using the NIAAA 2-question screen algorithm, approximately 8% were classified as low risk, 12% were classified as moderate risk, and 4% were classified as highest risk. Alcohol use was less likely to be reported by black participants, non-Hispanic participants, and those younger than 16 years. Discussion This study successfully recruited a large, demographically diverse sample to establish rates of the NIAAA screen risk categories across age, sex, ethnicity, and race within pediatric emergency departments.
AB - Objective The aim of this study was to determine the psychometric properties of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) 2-question alcohol screen within 16 Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network pediatric emergency departments. This article describes the study methodology, sample characteristics, and baseline outcomes of the NIAAA 2-question screen. Methods Participants included 12- to 17-year-olds treated in one of the participating pediatric emergency departments across the United States. After enrollment, a criterion assessment battery including the NIAAA 2-question screen and other measures of alcohol, drug use, and risk behavior was self-administered by participants on a tablet computer. Two subsamples were derived from the sample. The first subsample was readministered the NIAAA 2-question screen 1 week after their initial visit to assess test-retest reliability. The second subsample is being reassessed at 12 and 24 months to examine predictive validity of the NIAAA 2-question screen. Results There were 4834 participants enrolled into the study who completed baseline assessments. Participants were equally distributed across sex and age. Forty-six percent of the participants identified as white, and 26% identified as black. Approximately one quarter identified as Hispanic. Using the NIAAA 2-question screen algorithm, approximately 8% were classified as low risk, 12% were classified as moderate risk, and 4% were classified as highest risk. Alcohol use was less likely to be reported by black participants, non-Hispanic participants, and those younger than 16 years. Discussion This study successfully recruited a large, demographically diverse sample to establish rates of the NIAAA screen risk categories across age, sex, ethnicity, and race within pediatric emergency departments.
KW - SBIRT
KW - adolescent
KW - alcohol screening
KW - brief intervention
KW - referral to treatment
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85074553673&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1097/PEC.0000000000001221
DO - 10.1097/PEC.0000000000001221
M3 - Article
C2 - 29112110
AN - SCOPUS:85074553673
SN - 0749-5161
VL - 35
SP - 737
EP - 744
JO - Pediatric emergency care
JF - Pediatric emergency care
IS - 11
ER -