Assessment of alcohol intake: Retrospective measures versus a smartphone application.

CONCLUSIONS: CNLab-A provided more nuanced information regarding quantity and pattern of alcohol intake than the retrospective measures. In particular, it revealed higher levels of drinking than retrospective reporting. This will have implications for how particular at-risk alcohol consumption patterns are identified in future and might enable a more sophisticated exploration of the causes and consequences of drinking behaviour.
PMID: 29128148 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Addictive Behaviors - November 3, 2017 Category: Addiction Authors: Poulton A, Pan J, Bruns LR, Sinnott RO, Hester R Tags: Addict Behav Source Type: research