Social desirability bias impacts self-reported alcohol use among persons with HIV in Uganda.

CONCLUSIONS: While use of objective measures (e.g. alcohol biomarkers) is desirable for measuring alcohol use, SDS scores may be used to adjust self-reported drinking levels by participants' level of social desirability in HIV research studies.
PMID: 31610017 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research - October 13, 2019 Category: Addiction Authors: Adong J, Fatch R, Emenyonu NI, Cheng DM, Muyindike WR, Ngabirano C, Kekibiina A, Woolf-King SE, Samet JH, Hahn JA Tags: Alcohol Clin Exp Res Source Type: research