Approaches for Creating Comparable Measures of Alcohol Use Symptoms: Harmonization with Eight Studies of Criminal Justice Populations

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and other National Institutes of Health partners initiated the STTR (Seek-Test-Treat-Retain, referencing the HIV treatment cascade) Research Harmonization Initiative to create the largest prospective data collection and harmonization effort (Chandler et al., 2015). The initiative serves as an example for creating partnerships between government agencies and study investigators at the point of project inception with the goal of eventual data harmonization (i.e., creating comparable measures in different data sets for pooled analyses across studies).

Source: Drug and Alcohol Dependence - October 22, 2018 Category: Addiction Authors: Andrea M. Hussong, Nisha C. Gottfredson, Dan J. Bauer, Patrick J. Curran, Maleeha Haroon, Redonna Chandler, Shoshana Y. Kahana, Joseph A.C. Delaney, Frederick L. Altice, Curt G. Beckwith, Daniel J. Feaster, Patrick M. Flynn, Michael S. Gordon, Kevin Knigh Tags: Full length article Source Type: research