Ebbert Jon O, Patten Christi A, Schroeder Darrell R
Nicotine Research Program, Primary Care Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic; 200 1st Street Southwest, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.
Addict Behav. 2006 Sep;31(9):1716-21. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2005.12.015. Epub 2006 Jan 31.
Few nicotine dependence measures have been developed for smokeless tobacco (ST) users. Existing measures are limited by the requirement to rate the nicotine content of ST brands for which data is scarce or non-existent. We modified the Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence (FTND) for ST users, referred to this scale as the FTND-ST, and evaluated its characteristics in a population of 42 ST users. The correlation between the FTND-ST total score and the serum cotinine concentrations was 0.53 (p<0.001). Internal consistency reliability assessed using the coefficient alpha was 0.47. Correlations and the coefficient alpha are similar to those reported for commonly used nicotine dependence measures. Development and refinement of nicotine dependence measures for ST users are essential steps in order to advance the field of ST research.
针对无烟烟草(ST)使用者开发的尼古丁依赖测量方法很少。现有测量方法受到以下要求的限制:即需要对ST品牌的尼古丁含量进行评分,而相关数据稀缺或不存在。我们对ST使用者的尼古丁依赖程度弗格斯特罗姆测试(FTND)进行了修改,将该量表称为FTND-ST,并在42名ST使用者群体中评估了其特性。FTND-ST总分与血清可替宁浓度之间的相关性为0.53(p<0.001)。使用α系数评估的内部一致性信度为0.47。相关性和α系数与常用尼古丁依赖测量方法所报告的相似。为ST使用者开发和完善尼古丁依赖测量方法是推进ST研究领域的重要步骤。