Differentiating Types of Self-Reported Alcohol Abstinence

Assessing alcohol abstinence self-efficacy in undergraduate students: psychometric evaluation of the alcohol abstinence self-efficacy scale.

BACKGROUND Alcohol use is a major public health concern with respect to its impact on youth morbidity and mortality. Self-efficacy to abstain from alcohol use in young people is an important prevention and intervention strategy in future alcohol dependence. However, research on the assessment of self-efficacy to abstain from alcohol use among undergraduate students is almost non-existent in Gha...

Differentiating Self-Reported Imagery Abilities with Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Self-reported alcohol use and sexual behaviors of adolescents.

Research has demonstrated a relation between alcohol use and engaging in high-risk sexual behaviors. Alcohol use, especially binge drinking, has been linked to a host of problems including high-risk sexual behavior, date rape, and academic problems. As such, the purpose of this study was to provide a descriptive profile of alcohol consumption among adolescents and to examine the relations of al...

Accuracy of self-reported smoking abstinence in clinical trials of hospital-initiated smoking interventions.

AIMS To estimate the prevalence and predictors of failed biochemical verification of self-reported abstinence among participants enrolled in trials of hospital-initiated smoking cessation interventions. DESIGN Comparison of characteristics between participants who verified and those who failed to verify self-reported abstinence. SETTINGS Multi-site randomized clinical trials conducted betwe...

[Alcohol use and self-reported violent events in Chile].

The objective is to examine the association between binge drinking and frequency of alcohol consumption during the last month with self-reported episodes of violence committed by people under the influence of alcohol or other drugs. We carried out a cross-sectional study that uses data from the National Survey on Drug Use on the General Population of Chile of 2010. A sample of 16,000 subjects, ...