The Assessment of Alcohol Consumption by a Simple Self-administered Questionnaire
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The authors evaluated the reproducibility and validity of alcohol consumption measured by a mailed, self-administered questionnaire in two large prospective studies. Subsamples of 173 women and 136 men from these cohorts completed two food-frequency questionnaires and multiple 1-week diet records (four for women and two for men) and provided a fasting blood sample. Intakes of alcohol reported over the previous year by food frequency questionnaire 2 correlated highly with intake assessed by multiple week diet records completed over this period (Spearman r = 0.90 in women and 0.86 in men). Mean daily alcohol intake as assessed by the diet records and the questionnaires was very similar. Serum high density lipoprotein cholesterol levels were significantly correlated with alcohol intakes estimated from the questionnaire (r = 0.40 in women and 0.35 in men) and for the diet records (r = 0.33 in women and 0.38 in men). Four years after completing the diet records, women were asked to report their alcohol intake of 4 years earlier; this estimate was highly correlated with the diet records (r = 0.84) and with the earlier high density lipoprotein cholesterol (r = 0.40). These data suggest that a simple self-administered questionnaire can provide useful estimates of alcohol intake over an extended period of time in subjects participating in prospective epidemiologic studies.
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The reproducibility and validity of the food frequency questionnaires are high when compared with multiple 1-week diet records and biochemical markers.
“The reproducibility and validity of these FFQs are high when compared with multiple 1-week diet records and biochemical markers.18 -20”
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- Authors
- Glovannucci, E., Colditz, G., Stampfer, M. J., Rimm, E. B., Litin, L., Sampson, L., & Willett, W. C.
- Affiliations
- Brigham and Women's Hospital (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Glovannucci, Edward
- Venue
- American Journal of Epidemiology
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 1991-04-15
- Volume
- 133
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 810-817
- ISSN
- 0002-9262 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-6256
- OpenAlex
- W2115974358
- Cited by
- 637
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 13.87
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- American Journal of Epidemiology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (5r01ca040935-02)
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01HL035464, HL35464)
- National Cancer Institute (CA-40935)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pathology and Forensic Medicine › Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Nutritional Studies and Diet
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistical Methods in Epidemiology
- Keywords
- alcohol consumption, self-administered questionnaire, reproducibility, validity, food frequency questionnaire, dietary records, serum HDL cholesterol, prospective cohort
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Age Factors, Aged, Alcohol Drinking, Boston, Diet Surveys, Epidemiologic Methods, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Health Occupations, Humans, Cholesterol, HDL, Male, Middle Aged, Nurses, Prospective Studies, Surveys and Questionnaires, Sex Factors
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