Vink Jacqueline M, Willemsen Gonneke, Beem A Leo, Boomsma Dorret I
Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, van der Boechortstraat 1, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Addict Behav. 2005 Mar;30(3):575-9. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2004.05.023.
We explored the performance of the Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence (FTND) in a sample of 1378 daily smokers and 1058 ex-smokers who participated in a survey study of the Netherlands Twin Register. FTND scores were higher for smokers than for ex-smokers. Nicotine dependence level was not associated with age. FTND score was highly correlated with the maximum number of cigarettes smoked (even after excluding the item 'number of cigarettes per day' from FTND), but the FTND score showed a low correlation with age of first cigarette and total number of years smoked. In a subsample of smokers (n = 143) and ex-smokers (n = 181) the test-retest correlations for the FTND were high. In general, the performance of the FTND in ex-smokers was comparable with that in smokers. These findings suggest the FTND to be a valuable tool for studies of nicotine dependence in large epidemiological samples.
我们在1378名每日吸烟者和1058名曾经吸烟者的样本中探究了尼古丁依赖的法格斯特龙测试（FTND）的表现，这些人参与了荷兰双胞胎登记处的一项调查研究。吸烟者的FTND得分高于曾经吸烟者。尼古丁依赖水平与年龄无关。FTND得分与吸烟的最大数量高度相关（即使从FTND中排除“每日吸烟数量”这一项后），但FTND得分与首次吸烟年龄和吸烟总年数的相关性较低。在吸烟者（n = 143）和曾经吸烟者（n = 181）的一个子样本中，FTND的重测相关性很高。总体而言，FTND在曾经吸烟者中的表现与在吸烟者中的表现相当。这些发现表明FTND是在大型流行病学样本中研究尼古丁依赖的一个有价值的工具。
