VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Am J Addict. 2011 Nov-Dec;20(6):568-74. doi: 10.1111/j.1521-0391.2011.00178.x. Epub 2011 Oct 4.
Prior studies have found discrepancies between daily report and retrospective recall of alcohol use. One possible explanation is that there may be an association between memory impairment and alcohol consumption recall errors. Should this possibility be substantiated it could have implications for the types of assessments conducted in alcohol treatment trials. The current study evaluated the degree to which memory impairment, as measured by the California Verbal Learning Test-II, predicted day-to-day discrepancies between daily Interactive Voice Response monitoring and retrospective recall of alcohol use assessed with a 42-day version of the Form-90. Significant differences were detected in absolute difference in days drinking across the two measurement methods between participants scoring above and below population means on two measures of immediate memory ability. Correlations between the absolute difference in days drinking and immediate memory ability and long-delay memory indices approached significance. There were no significant associations between memory indices and discrepancies in reports of standard drink units. These preliminary results suggest that verbal memory difficulties common in this population may result in inaccurate reports of days drinking for some individuals.
先前的研究发现，日常报告和酒精使用的回溯回忆之间存在差异。一种可能的解释是，记忆障碍和酒精摄入回忆错误之间可能存在关联。如果这种可能性得到证实，它可能会对酒精治疗试验中进行的评估类型产生影响。本研究评估了记忆障碍的程度，即通过加州语言学习测试 II 测量，预测了使用 42 天版本的 Form-90 进行的每日交互式语音响应监测与酒精使用的回溯回忆之间的日常差异。在两个即时记忆能力测量指标上得分高于和低于人群平均值的参与者之间，两种测量方法在饮酒天数的绝对差异上存在显著差异。饮酒天数的绝对差异与即时记忆能力和长时记忆指标之间的相关性接近显著。记忆指标与标准饮酒单位报告的差异之间没有显著关联。这些初步结果表明，该人群中常见的言语记忆困难可能导致某些人对饮酒天数的不准确报告。
