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Timeline Follow-Back
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Although the measurement of drinking is necessary for assessing and evaluating the treatment of alcohol problems, this key dependent variable has not always been reported in outcome studies. 1 – 3 Today, the issue is not whether to measure drinking, but how to measure drinking. Concerns about how best to measure drinking patterns and problems date back to at least 1926, when Pearl stressed the importance of separating steady daily drinkers from occasional heavy drinkers. 4 These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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“Daily opioid dose over the past 14 days was assessed via the Timeline Followback method, a validated, structured approach for assessing daily substance use patterns that has demonstrated good test-retest reliability (Sobell & Sobell, 1992)”
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“The TLFB has been determined to be a valid and reliable measure of alcohol consumption (see Sobell & Sobell, 1992 for a review).”
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“Alcohol consumption will be recorded at both visits using the Timeline Follow-Back method (TLFB; [68]) to obtain a baseline measure.”
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“The traditional TLFB has been shown to be psychometrically sound across a range of populations (see Sobell and Sobell, 1992 for a review), including social drinkers and persons with a diagnosis of alcohol abuse or dependence.”
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“The Alcohol TLFB has good psychometric characteristics with different drinker groups.”
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“The TLFB is a self-report calendar completed retrospectively by participants indicating the number of cigarettes smoked each day (Sobell and Sobell, 1992).”
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- Authors
- Sobell, L. C., & Sobell, M. B.
- Affiliations
- University of Toronto (CA)
- Venue
- Measuring Alcohol Consumption
- Publisher
- Humana Press
- Published
- 1992
- Pages
- 41-72
- OpenAlex
- W1475474724
- Cited by
- 4,110
- References
- 84
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 25.29
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Humana Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Psychological Testing and Assessment
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Keywords
- timeline follow-back, alcohol consumption measurement, drinking patterns, alcohol problems, treatment outcome assessment, heavy drinking, daily drinking
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